Critical review of safety performance metrics

A Framework for Software Safety Metrics in Critical Systems

EXTENDED ABSTRACT Safety-critical systems are those systems whose failure could result in loss of life, significant property damage, or damage to the environment. There are many well known examples in application areas such as medical devices, aircraft flight control, weapons, and nuclear systems. A safety critical system is a system where human safety is dependent upon the correct operation of...

Safety-critical Wide Area Network Performance Evaluation

The growing importance of real-time computing in numerous applications poses problems for network architectures, especially safety-critical Wide Area Networks (WANs). Assessing network performance in safety-critical real-time systems is difficult, and suggests the use of both human and technical performance criteria because of the importance of both dimensions in safety-critical settings. This ...

Thermal metrics for data centers: a critical review

Thermal management and air distribution performance are assuming a key role for achieving the energy saving and the IT equipment reliability for data centers (DCs). In recent years, to monitor and to control their variation several thermal performance metrics were introduced. This work presents a critical review on the most important thermal indices for DCs currently used. The main formulas and...

Class Cohesion Metrics for Software Engineering: A Critical Review

Class cohesion or degree of the relations of class members is considered as one of the crucial quality criteria. A class with a high cohesion improves understandability, maintainability and reusability. The class cohesion metrics can be measured quantitatively and therefore can be used as a base for assessing the quality of design. The main objective of this paper is to identify important resea...

The Performance of Insecticides – A Critical Review