A tutorial entitled “An Introduction to Software Reliability and Safety or How to Reduce Software Risks” will be offered on Sunday, September 13th, 1998 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm at the Grand Hyatt Hotel New York City right before the PSAM-IV conference. The speakers will present a brief overview of these two fields and their applications to the reduction of risks in software used in systems such as telecommunications networks, nuclear power plants control systems, etc. The speakers will also study and contrast the nature of existing relationships between software reliability and software safety. Registration fee is $125 if registered before 09/01/1998 and $150 if after 09/01/1998 . For information and registration*, please contact :
Tutorial Coordinator:
Ms. Nihal Kececi
Reliability Engineering Program
0303 Marie Mount Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7531
Phone: (301) 405-5757
Fax:(301) 314-9601
email: nkececi@eng.umd.edu
About the Speakers:
JOHN D. MUSA
John D. Musa is an independent senior consultant. He has more than
20 years experience as software practitioner and manager in a wide variety
of development projects. He is one of the creators of the field of software
reliability engineering. Musa is a Fellow of the IEEE, and an international
leader in software engineering listed in Who’s Who in America and
American Men and Women of Science. He has published some 100 papers
and given more than 175 major presentations.
LARRY J. DALTON
Larry J. Dalton is manager of Sandia National Laboratories' High Integrity
Software Systems Engineering Department and High Integrity Software Research
Program. The Engineering Department develops software-based systems
for high consequence applications. The Research Program Larry Dalton manages
conducts advanced research in the informal and formal domains of software
creation as well as in Systems Immunology methods and techniques for real-time
fault detection and management in complex software-based systems.
CAROL SMIDTS
Carol Smidts is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland,
Reliability Engineering Program. She is also the Director of the Software
Reliability Engineering Curriculum initiated in 1996 at the University
of Maryland under the sponsorship of the National Security Agency. She
holds her Ph.D. from the Ecole Polytechnique, Universite Libre de Bruxelles,
Belgique, and is the author of more than 50 scientific publications in
the fields of Software Reliability, Software Testing,
Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Risk Assessment.
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