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The hazard function represents one of the main quantities of interest in the analysis of survival data. We propose a general approach for parametrically modelling the dynamics of the hazard function using systems of autonomous ordinary…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-19 J. A. Christen , F. J. Rubio

Formal verification and testing are complementary approaches which are used in the development process to verify the functional correctness of software. However, the correctness of software cannot ensure the safe operation of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Asim Abdulkhaleq , Stefan Wagner , Nancy Leveson

The task of designing secure software systems is fraught with uncertainty, as data on uncommon attacks is limited, costs are difficult to estimate, and technology and tools are continually changing. Consequently, experts may interpret the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-03 Simon Miller , Susan Appleby , Jonathan M. Garibaldi , Uwe Aickelin

Organizations that develop software have recognized that software process models are particularly useful for maintaining a high standard of quality. In the last decade, simulations of software processes were used in several settings and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-24 Holger Neu , Thomas Hanne , Jürgen Münch , Stefan Nickel , Andreas Wirsen

Deployment of distributed systems sets high requirements for procedures for the security testing of these systems. This work introduces: (1) a list of typical threats based on standards and actual practices; (2) an extended six-layered…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Vladimir A. Khlevnoy , Andrey A. Shchurov

Autonomous systems must sustain justified confidence in their correctness and safety across their operational lifecycle-from design and deployment through post-deployment evolution. Traditional assurance methods often separate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Dhaminda B. Abeywickrama , Michael Fisher , Frederic Wheeler , Louise Dennis

Risk assessment plays a crucial role in ensuring the security and resilience of modern computer systems. Existing methods for conducting risk assessments often suffer from tedious and time-consuming processes, making it challenging to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Simon Unger , Ektor Arzoglou , Markus Heinrich , Dirk Scheuermann , Stefan Katzenbeisser

The purpose of the research presented in this article is to develop a dynamic system for forecasting and minimizing the risks of an industrial company based on their quantitative assessment. The article considers the conceptual apparatus of…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-02-02 Denis S. Gusev , Elena G. Demidova , Olga A. Novikova

Considering the ever-evolving threat landscape and rapid changes in software development, we propose a risk assessment framework called SAFER (Software Analysis Framework for Evaluating Risk). This framework is based on the necessity of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Sarah Ali Siddiqui , Chandra Thapa , Rayne Holland , Wei Shao , Seyit Camtepe

Increasing communication and self-driving capabilities for road vehicles lead to threats imposed by attackers. Especially attacks leading to safety violations have to be identified to address them by appropriate measures. The impact of an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Christian Wolschke , Behrooz Sangchoolie , Jacob Simon , Stefan Marksteiner , Tobias Braun , Hayk Hamazaryan

Embodied AI systems, comprising AI models and physical plants, are increasingly prevalent across various applications. Due to the rarity of system failures, ensuring their safety in complex operating environments remains a major challenge,…

Dynamic security analysis is an important problem of power systems on ensuring safe operation and stable power supply even when certain faults occur. No matter such faults are caused by vulnerabilities of system components, physical…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Qiang Wu , T. John Koo , Yoshihiko Susuki

Stealth attacks pose potential risks to cyber-physical systems because they are difficult to detect. Assessing the risk of systems under stealth attacks remains an open challenge, especially in nonlinear systems. To comprehensively quantify…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Guang Chen , Zhicong Sun , Yulong Ding , Shuang-hua Yang

We present an historical overview about the connections between the analysis of risk and the control of autonomous systems. We offer two main contributions. Our first contribution is to propose three overlapping paradigms to classify the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yuheng Wang , Margaret P. Chapman

Responsibility-sensitive safety (RSS) is an approach to the safety of automated driving systems (ADS). It aims to introduce mathematically formulated safety rules, compliance with which guarantees collision avoidance as a mathematical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Ichiro Hasuo

In this report, we aim at establishing proper ways for model checking the global security of distributed systems, which are designed consisting of set of localised security policies that enforce specific issues about the security expected.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-05-30 Alejandro Mario Hernandez

Safety is a central requirement for automated vehicles. As such, the assessment of risk in automated driving is key in supporting both motion planning technologies and safety evaluation. In automated driving, risk is characterized by two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Leon Tolksdorf , Arturo Tejada , Jonas Bauernfeind , Christian Birkner , Nathan van de Wouw

Self-adaptive systems are able to change their behaviour at run-time in response to changes. Self-adaptation is an important strategy for managing uncertainty that is present during the design of modern systems, such as autonomous vehicles.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Simon Diemert , Jens H. Weber

Frontier artificial intelligence (AI) systems present both benefits and risks to society. Safety cases - structured arguments supported by evidence - are one way to help ensure the safe development and deployment of these systems. Yet the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Carmen Cârlan , Francesca Gomez , Yohan Mathew , Ketana Krishna , René King , Peter Gebauer , Ben R. Smith

By building on a recently introduced genetic-inspired attribute-based conceptual framework for safety risk analysis, we propose a novel methodology to compute construction univariate and bivariate construction safety risk at a situational…

Applications · Statistics 2016-09-27 Antoine J. -P. Tixier , Matthew R. Hallowell , Balaji Rajagopalan