COMMUNICATION-BASED MODELLING AND INSPECTION IN CRITICAL SYSTEMS

Marcos Salenko Guimarães, M. Cecilia C. Baranauskas, Eliane Martins

2008

Abstract

Safety-critical systems are systems whose failure would provoke injury or death to human beings. In avionic systems we have seen some significant evolution related to the aircraft cockpits. The Personal Air Vehicle (PAV) represents a new generation of small aircrafts being conceived to extend personal air travel to a much larger segment of the population proposing new concepts of interaction and communication in aviation. In this domain, communication is a critical factor especially among the users while running the system through its interfaces. This paper presents a technique for modelling and inspecting communication in the user interface of the avionics domain; a case study illustrates the proposal for artefacts of the PAV domain.

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Salenko Guimarães M., Cecilia C. Baranauskas M. and Martins E. (2008). COMMUNICATION-BASED MODELLING AND INSPECTION IN CRITICAL SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-40-1, pages 215-220. DOI: 10.5220/0001693902150220


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@conference{iceis08,
author={Marcos Salenko Guimarães and M. Cecilia C. Baranauskas and Eliane Martins},
title={COMMUNICATION-BASED MODELLING AND INSPECTION IN CRITICAL SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={215-220},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001693902150220},
isbn={978-989-8111-40-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - COMMUNICATION-BASED MODELLING AND INSPECTION IN CRITICAL SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8111-40-1
AU - Salenko Guimarães M.
AU - Cecilia C. Baranauskas M.
AU - Martins E.
PY - 2008
SP - 215
EP - 220
DO - 10.5220/0001693902150220