7th Australian Workshop on Safety Critical Systems and Software
The Safety Critical Systems Technical Committee held its 7th National
Workshop on Safety Critical Systems and Software (SCS 2002) in Adelaide over one and a half
days (17-18th October 2002) and attracted over 70 participants.
The workshop featured keynote addresses by international software safety experts
Professor John McDermid
(University of York, UK),
Dr John Rushby (SRI
International, USA), and Felix Redmill (Convener of the
UK SCS Club). The international
speaker programme was partially funded by the Department of Education, Science and Training's
Frontiers of S&T Missions and Workshops component of the Innovation Access Programme
administered by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
(ATSE).
The workshop also included the launch of the Australian Safety Critical Systems Club
(ASCSC).
In association with the workshop, a short course: Principles of Safety Management and Safety
Engineering was conducted by Felix Redmill (UK Safety Critical Systems Club) on the Thursday
morning, prior to the workshop (not included in workshop registration or fees).
This year's workshop proceedings will appear as Volume 15 in the
Conferences in Research and Practice in Information
Technology series.
For any information about the SCS 2002 Workshop, please contact:
Prof Peter Lindsay (SCS 2002 Workshop Chair)
School of ITEE,
University of Queensland, Qld 4072, Australia
Phone: +61 7 3365 2005 Fax: +61 7 3365 1533
Copies of the proceedings from previous workshops are available from the
Secretary.
Please contact for pricing details.
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