Seminar on software reliability, September 25th

Motto: "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future" (Niels Bohr)

About the workshop: Software reliability is defined as "the probability of failure-free software operation for a specified period of time in a specified environment". Because it's almost impossible to ensure that software contains no faults, safety standards assume that software always fails. However, this does not mean that there shouldn't be more effort in measuring and improving the software reliability.  

This seminar presents an overview of the state-of-the-art in software reliability, focusing on practical opportunities in the field of estimation and prediction of software reliability, including methods, tools and techniques to characterize the accuracy of the  forecasts, based on collected data. See the program for more details.

About the interest group: Embedded systems are increasingly used in safety-critical application areas, such as medical, railway, military, aerospace and factory systems, where a failure can endanger human life or the environment. Safety-critical embedded systems are becoming more complex, and they use software and hardware to implement part of their functions. 

This is the reason why the national innovation network InfinIT is creating an interest group on safety-critical systems. Participation in the Safety-Critical Systems Interest Group (SCSIG) is free of charge and is open to all the interested parties. The meeting is co-organized with IEEE Denmark Section, Chapter CO16--Embedded Systems.

Time: Tuesday, September 25th, 9:00 to 12:30

Place: DTU Meeting Center, Building 101A, Meeting room 1 (Mødelokale 1)

Technical University of Denmark , Anker Engelunds Vej 1, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Registration:  Participation is free of charge. For practical reasons we kindly ask you to register no later than September 23rd, by visiting the following address: http://scsig-2012-09-25.eventbrite.com

Program: 

9:00 Welcome, Paul Pop, associate professor, DTU Informatics, Technical University of Denmark

9:15 Software reliability, Florin Popentiu Vladicescu, professor, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, see his short biography.

Introduction

Measuring software reliability

Models for analysis of the software reliability growth 

Break

Evaluation of software reliability predictions

Accuracy and quality of forecasts; capabilities and limitations

Lessons Learned

Practical case studies

12:30 Networking and refreshments 

Contact: Karin Tunder, DTU Informatics, kt@imm.dtu.dk or 4525 3728

Dr. Florin Popentiu  is  professor at the University "Politehnica" of Bucharest. Since the academic year of 1997/98, he has been appointed as "UNESCO Professor" at City University, London , where he founded the fist UNESCO Chair in “Information and Communication Engineering”, in UK (1998). Currently he is Visiting Professor at a number of renowned European technical universities , such as Telecom ParisTech, ETH in Zürich,  Technical University of Denmark (DTU), ENSTA Paris Tech. His research interests center on software  reliability. Prof. Florin Popentiu  has published over 100 papers in International Journals and Conference Proceedings, and also co-author of 4 books. He has been Co-Director of two NATO research projects,  involving collaboration with partner institutions throughout Europe. He is an expert for the Seventh Framework Programme-FP7. Also he is on the advisory board of the international journal, "Reliability and Risk Analysis: Theory & Applications"  and  Associated Editor to "Int. J. of Information and Communication Technology".