This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 6 workshops co-located with SAFECOMP 2014, the 33rd International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, held in Florence, Italy, in September 2014. The 32 revised full and 10 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. They are complemented with 6 introduction to each of the workshops: Architecting Safety in Collaborative Mobile Systems, ASCoMS'14; ERCIM/EWICS/ARTEMIS Workshop on Dependable Embedded and Cyberphysical Systems and Systems-of-Systems, DECSoS'14; DEvelopment, Verification and VAlidation of cRiTical Systems, DEVVARTS'14; Integration of Safety and Security Engineering, ISSE'14; Reliability and Security Aspects for Critical Infrastructure Protection, ReSA4CI'14; Next Generation of System Assurance Approaches for Safety-Critical Systems, SASSUR'14.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, SAFECOMP 2021, which took place in York, UK, in September 2021. The 17 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: machine learning safety assurance; security engineering; safety and assurance cases; machine learning applications; safety validation and simulation; and fault tolerance.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Workshops held in conjunction with SAFECOMP 2021, the 40th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, which took place in York, UK, in September 2021. The 26 regular papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The workshops included in this volume are: DECSoS 2021: 16th Workshop on Dependable Smart Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems and Systems-of-Systems WAISE 2021: Fourth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety Engineering DepDevOps 2021: Second International Workshop on Dependable Development-Operation Continuum Methods for Dependable Cyber-Physical Systems USDAI 2021: Second International Workshop on Underpinnings for Safe Distributed AI MAPSOD 2021: First International Workshop on Multi-concern Assurance Practices in Software Design

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 36th International Conference on ComputerSafety, Reliability, and Security, SAFECOMP 2017, held in Trento, Italy, in September 2017.The 22 revised full papers and two abstracts of keynotes presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on dynamic fault trees; safety case and argumentation; formal verification; autonomous systems; static analysis and testing; safety analysis and assessment; safety and security.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of four workshops co-located with SAFECOMP 2016, the 35th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, held in Trondheim, Norway, in September 2016. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 4 short and 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. This year’s workshop are: ASSURE 2016 - Assurance Cases for Software-intensive Systems; DECSoS 2016 - EWICS/ERCIM/ARTEMIS Dependable Cyber-physical Systems and Systems-of-Systems Workshop; SASSUR 2016 - Next Generation of System Assurance Approaches for Safety-Critical Systems; and TIPS 2016 – Timing Performance in Safety Engineering.

In this book, the authors highlight recent findings that hold the potential to improve software products or development processes; in addition, they help readers understand new concepts and technologies, and to see what it takes to migrate from old to new platforms. Some of the authors have spent most of their careers in industry, working at the frontiers of practice-based innovation, and are at the same time prominent researchers who have made significant academic contributions. Others work together with industry to test, in industrial settings, the methods they’ve developed in the lab. The choice of subject and authors represent the key elements of this book. Its respective chapters cover a wide range of topics, from cloud computing to agile development, applications of data science methods, re-engineering of aging applications into modern ones, and business and requirements engineering. Taken together, they offer a valuable asset for practitioners and researchers alike.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of five workshops co-located with SAFECOMP 2018, the 37th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, held in Västerås, Sweden, in September 2018. The 28 revised full papers and 21 short papers presented together with 5 introductory papers to each workshop were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. This year's workshops are: ASSURE 2018 – Assurance Cases for Software-Intensive Systems; DECSoS 2018 – ERCIM/EWICS/ARTEMIS Dependable Smart Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems and Systems-of-Systems; SASSUR 2018 – Next Generation of System Assurance Approaches for Safety-Critical Systems; STRIVE 2018 – Safety, securiTy, and pRivacy In automotiVe systEms; and WAISE 2018 – Artificial Intelligence Safety Engineering. The chapter '“Boxing Clever”: Practical Techniques for Gaining Insights into Training Data and Monitoring Distribution Shift' is available open access under an Open Government License via link.springer.com.

Damage prognosis is a natural extension of damage detection and structural health monitoring and is forming a growing part of many businesses. This comprehensive volume presents a series of fundamental topics that define the new area of damage prognosis. Bringing together essential information in each of the basic technologies necessary to perform damage prognosis, it also reflects the highly interdisciplinary nature of the industry through the extensive referencing of each of the component disciplines. Taken from lectures given at the Pan American Advanced Studies Institute in Damage Prognosis sponsored by the US National Science Foundation in cooperation with Los Alamos National Laboratories, this book will be essential reading for anyone looking to get to grips with the fundamentals of damage prognosis. Presents the 'ground rules' for Damage Prognosis. Deals with interdisciplinary topics: rotating machines, aerospace structures, automotive components and civil structures. Covers essential technical material: equations, graphs and plots, tables and photographs. Offers additional material from the associated workshop on an active web site.

The safety case (SC) is one of the railway industry’s most important deliverables for creating confidence in their systems. This is the first book on how to write an SC, based on the standard EN 50129:2003. Experience has shown that preparing and understanding an SC is difficult and time consuming, and as such the book provides insights that enhance the training for writing an SC. The book discusses both "regular" safety cases and agile safety cases, which avoid too much documentation, improve communication between the stakeholders, allow quicker approval of the system, and which are important in the light of rapidly changing technology. In addition, it discusses the necessity of frequently updating software due to market requirements, changes in requirements and increased cyber-security threats. After a general introduction to SCs and agile thinking in chapter 1, chapter 2 describes the majority of the roles that are relevant when developing railway-signaling systems. Next, chapter 3 provides information related to the assessment of signaling systems, to certifications based on IEC 61508 and to the authorization of signaling systems. Chapter 4 then explains how an agile safety plan satisfying the requirements given in EN 50126-1:1999 can be developed, while chapter 5 provides a brief introduction to safety case patterns and notations. Lastly, chapter 6 combines all this and describes how an (agile) SC can be developed and what it should include. To ensure that infrastructure managers, suppliers, consultants and others can take full advantage of the agile mind-set, the book includes concrete examples and presents relevant agile practices. Although the scope of the book is limited to signaling systems, the basic foundations for (agile) SCs are clearly described so that they can also be applied in other cases.