Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security: 23rd International Conference, SAFECOMP 2004, Potsdam, Germany, September 21-24,2004, Proceedings: 3219 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) - Softcover

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Theimportanceofsafetyandsecurityisgrowingsteadily.Safetyisaqualityc- racteristic that traditionally has been considered to be important in embedded systems, and security is usually an essential property in business applications. There is certainly a tendency to use software-based solutions in safety-critical applications domains, which increases the importance of safety engineering te- niques. These include modelling and analysis techniques as well as appropriate processes and tools. And it is surely correct that the amount of con?dential data that require protection from unauthorized access is growing. Therefore, security is very important. On the one hand, the traditional motivations for addressing safety and security still exist, and their relevance has improved. On the other hand, safety and security requirements occur increasingly in the same system. At present, many software-based systems interact with technical equipment and they communicate, e.g., with users and other systems. Future systems will more and more interact with many other entities (technical systems, people, the en- ronment). In this situation, security problems may cause safety-related failures. It is thus necessary to address safety and security. It is furthermore required to take into account the interactions between these two properties.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, SAFECOMP 2004, held in Potsdam, Germany, in September 2004.

The 24 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 3 invited presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on safety cases, reliability , human factors, transportation, software development, fault tree analysis, formal methods and systems, security and quality of services, and hazard and risk analysis.