COTS product selection for safety-critical systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2959, Issue , 2004, Pages 53-62

  Ye, Fan ^a   Kelly, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

APPLICATION CONTEXTS; APPLICATION SPECIFIC; COMMERCIAL OFF-THE SHELVES; COST AND EFFORT ESTIMATIONS; PERCEIVED DIFFICULTIES; SAFETY CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS; SAFETY REQUIREMENTS;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

EID: 35048838778     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24645-9_17     Document Type: Article

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