The Social Safety Target of Engineering Systems

the impact of skopos on syntactic features of the target text

the present study is an experimental case study which investigates the impacts, if any, of skopos on syntactic features of the target text. two test groups each consisting of 10 ma students translated a set of sentences selected from advertising texts in the operative and informative mode. the resulting target texts were then statistically analyzed in terms of the number of words, phrases, si...

Engineering safety-related parallel systems

A growing number of safety–related applications are dependent on software for their control. High performance and redundancy requirements in modern control systems can be satisfied by parallel processing. This paper considers the requirements for the software engineering of safe parallel systems and the specific problems which need to be addressed: safe state analysis and temporal analysis. The...

Negligence: Engineering Safety-Critical Systems

A Systems Theoretic Approach to Safety Engineering

A model or set of assumptions about how accidents occur lies at the foundation of all accident prevention and investigation efforts. Traditionally, accidents have been viewed as resulting from a chain of events, each directly related to its “causal” event or events. The event(s) at the beginning of the chain is labelled the root cause. Event-chain models, however, are limited in their ability t...

The Design of Preventive Safety Systems: a Cognitive Engineering Problem

In this paper a design framework for preventive safety systems (ADAS) is proposed. The design framework takes into account risk mitigation strategies, advanced driver’s model, based on modern approaches and algorithms (machine learning and add-on functionalities), able to capture key aspects of human behavior, such as distraction, and to retain the fundamental characteristics of cognition and d...