2005 : 10th Conference

10th Australian Workshop on Safety Critical Systems and Software

 The Safety Critical Systems Technical Committee will hold its 10th National Workshop on Safety Critical Systems and Software (SCS 2005) in Sydney over two days (19-20th August 2005).

This year, the programme includes 4 international keynote speakers:

• Ron Bell
  Head of the Electrical and Control Systems Group, UK Health & Safety Executive. He is a member of the IEE Safety Critical Systems Policy Advisory Group, and is currently project leader for the revision of IEC 61508 and chairs one of the two teams responsible for the revision.
• Viv Hamilton
  Viv Hamilton Associates Limited, UK. She is one of the three authors of the new Defence Standard 00-56 and the author of the accompanying software guidance material.
• Connie Heitmeyer
  Head of the Software Engineering, USA Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Centre for High Assurance Computer Systems. She is the principal designer of NRL's SCR (Software Cost Reduction) toolset, which has been distributed to over 200 organisations in industry, academia, and government.
• Rod Chapman
  Products Manager, Praxis High Integrity Systems, UK. He leads the design and development of the SPARK language and toolset.

As in previous years, the workshop proceedings will be published as part of the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology series and a copy will be sent to all members when available.

Click here for the programme.

Copies of the proceedings from previous workshops are available from the Secretary. Please contact for pricing details.