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Proceedings of the Annual Washington Ada Symposium and Summer ACM SIGADA Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1-9

  Amey, Peter ^a   Chapman, Roderick ^a  

^a Praxis Critical Systems   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ada; Common Criteria; DO178B; Exception freedom; High integrity systems; Run time errors; Safety; Security; SPARK

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LOGIC DESIGN; MACHINE ORIENTED LANGUAGES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA;

RUN-TIME ERRORS;

ADA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 0042090533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/589451.589452     Document Type: Conference Paper

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