Supporting the Use of Cots in Safety Critical Applications
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چکیده
Systematic errors typically dominate the achieved failure rate for complex systems involving software [Bell93]. Such errors are failures of the system with respect to the intended operation. These errors are created as a result of a failure in the design, implementation or operation of the system. They are indicative of the fact that at some point during the phases of system development, some part of design intent has been misinterpreted or lost.
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