This article provides support in organizing and implementing novel concepts for enhancing safety on a cluster level of chemical plants. The paper elaborates the requirements for integrating safety management systems of chemical plants situated within a so-called chemical cluster. Recommendations of existing Plant Safety Management System Codes of Good Practice are analyzed in relation to the ne...

Safety critical and safety related systems are present, today, almost in every car. They ensure different functionalities such as braking, steering and airbag deployment etc... The failure of these systems could lead to hazardous situations. To ensure that the risk in these systems is reduced to an acceptable level, the automotive industry refers to ISO-26262. It is the functional safety standa...

Abstrac t: Computer-aided synthesis of digital circuits from behavioral level specifications offers an effective way to deal with the increasing complexity of digital hardware design. A high level synthesis tool transforms an abstract algorithmic description into a detailed register transfer level implementation. Even though considerable research has taken place, regarding high-level synthesis,...

Dealing with uncertainty is an important and difficult aspect of analyses and assessment of complex systems. A real-time large-scale complex critical system involves many uncertainties, and assessing probabilities to represent these uncertainties is itself a complex task. Currently, the certainty with which safety requirements are satisfied and the consideration of the other confidence factors ...

References 17–13 ire safety is an important concern in all types of construction. The high level of national concern for fire safety is reflected in limitations and design requirements in building codes. These code requirements are discussed in the context of fire safety design and evaluation in the initial section of this chapter. Since basic data on fire behavior of wood products are needed t...

this study aimed to evaluate the radiation safety condition and the level of radiation-awareness amongst staff and patients in 18 hospitals of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran. this descriptive, cross–sectional study was administered to patients and personnel, also making a review on the radiation-safety status in the hospitals. in evaluating the level of awareness, ...

Now that individual patterns for Interaction Design have started to appear, the issue of structuring collections of patterns into Pattern Languages becomes relevant, both from a theoretical and a practical perspective. In this paper, we investigate how Pattern Languages in Interaction Design can be structured in a meaningful and practical way. A top-down approach is taken where patterns for Int...

Coordinated Atomic actions (CA actions) are a unified approach to structuring complex concurrent activities and supporting error recovery between multiple interacting objects in object-oriented systems. This paper explains how we have used the CA action concept to design and implement a safety-critical application. We have used the Production Cell model that was developed in the Forschungszentr...