5th annual Dependability IRC workshop

15 March, 05 11:00 AM - 17 March, 05 12:30 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, , Edinburgh

Organiser:

Mr Jon Warwick

 

Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=467

5th annual Dependability IRC workshop

The 5th annual plenary workshop of the DIRC project, an EPSRC funded interdisciplinary research collaboration in the dependability of computer based systems, led by Professor Cliff Jones at Newcastle and including researchers from City, Edinburgh, Lancaster and York. www.dirc.org.uk for more information.

Agenda

Tuesday 15th March
10.00 Coffee
10.30 welcome
10.45 Responsibility Intro
11.00 Dave Martin and Mark Rouncefield - �That�s How The Bastille Got Stormed�: Issues of Responsibility in User-Designer Relations
11.25 John Dobson - Complexities of Multi-organisational Error Management
11.50 Chris Wright - The influence of regret on choice: Theoretical and applied perspectives
12.15 lunch
13.15 Ketnote (1)
14.00 Structure Intro
14.15 Denis Besnard, Gordon Baxter - Cognitive conflicts in aviation: Managing computerised critical environments
14.40 Gordon Baxter, Budi Arief, Shamus Smith and Andrew Monk - Structuring dependable on-line services: A case study using internet grocery shopping
15.05 Coffee
15.35 Massimo Felici - Capturing Emerging Complex Interactions Safety Analysis in ATM
16.00 K. Loer and Michael Harrison - Analysing user confusion in context aware mobile applications
16.25 Antonio Grau, Stuart Anderson and Conrad Hughes - Specification and Satisfaction of SLAs in Service Oriented Architectures
16.50 Close
Wednesday 16th March
10.00 Diversity Intro
10.15 A. Povyakalo, E. Alberdi, L. Strigini - Some difficult decisions are easier without computer support - ABSTRACT
10.40 David Greathead, Budi Arief and Joey Coleman - TA Weinberg
11.05 Coffee
11.35 E. Alberdi, R.Bloomfield, M. van der Meulen, B. Littlewood - A study of confidence in safety judgements
12.00 Richard Paul - Self Organisation in Large Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems
12.25 P. Bagnall, G. Dewsbury and I. Sommerville - The Limits of Personas
12.50 Lunch
14.00 Keynote Speaker
15.00 Coffee
15.30 Risk Intro
15.45 Pete Ryan - A Socio-technical Approach to Voting Systems
16.10 G. Baxter, G. Dewsbury, A. Monk, and I. Sommerville - Managing the Risks of Electronic Assistive Technology: Two complementary methods
16.35 Lisbeth Aagard - Studies in Behavioural Decision Making
17.00 Close
19.30 Workshop Dinner at Beluga Canteen Bar & Restaurant, Chambers Street. http://www.belugabar.co.uk/
Thursday 17th March
09.30 Timeliness Intro
09.45 M. Hilderbrandt and J. Meyer - When-to-Act: Evidence for Action Bias in a Dynamic Belief-Updating Task
10.10 R. Slack, A.Voss, R. Procter, M. Hartswood, M. Rouncefield, K. Clarke, J. Hughes and D. Martin - Dasein of the Times': Temporal Features of Dependability
10.35 Adam Betts and Guillem Bernat - Measurement-Based Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) Analysis
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Richard Harper - Keynote Speaker
12.15 Cliff
13.00 Lunch
Finish

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