The integrated EU-project DECOS (Dependable Embedded Components and Systems) aims at developing an integrated architecture for embedded systems to reduce life-cycle costs and to increase dependability of embedded applications. To facilitate the certification process of DECOS-based applications a modular approach has been implemented which is based on the usage of generic safety cases. This mean...

Scope of the paper is to provide indications of today’s best practices on safety applications of computer based systems and the impact of emerging standards. Starting in the early 1970’s, the potential benefits and problems of such systems are recognised. Since then, standards and guidelines have been proposed to regulate the application of computer to perform safety functions. Among them all t...

This paper provides the status of the Vehicle Safety Communications-Applications (VSC-A) research project, which was designed to determine if dedicated short range communications (DSRC) paired with accurate vehicle positioning can improve upon autonomous vehicle-based safety systems or enable new communication-based safety applications. This three-year project is a collaborative effort between ...

ITS Applications have in recent years assisted in reducing the number of fatalities in Europe. However, Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) have not benefited as much as vehicle users. The EU-sponsored VRUITS project assesses the safety and mobility impacts of ITS applications for VRUs, assesses the impacts of current and upcoming ITS applications on the safety and mobility of VRUs, identifies how the...

The Special Issue “Food Quality and Safety: Advances in Analytical Methods Applications” was open to expert reviews original contributions dealing with advances analytical methods for the detection quantification of potentially hazardous substances food matrices [...]