99-19364. Software Reliability Models for Digital Safety Critical Systems

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 145 (Thursday, July 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 41171]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-19364]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Software Reliability Models for Digital Safety Critical Systems

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of workshop.

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SUMMARY: The NRC has committed through its Strategic Plan to 
incorporate risk insights, conduct anticipatory research on issues of 
potential regulatory and safety significance, engage in cooperative 
research agreements, and provide timely information to our 
stakeholders. As part of this commitment, a workshop has been 
established to assess software models which could be used to determine 
the software reliability of digital systems. This research is conducted 
through a cooperative agreement between academia and the government. 
The objective of this workshop is to evaluate software reliability 
models and the associated software metrics to determine which would be 
most effective in determining the software reliability of digital 
safety systems.

    Date: August 16-17, 1999--The workshop will begin at 8:30 a.m. and 
end at 6:00 p.m.
    Location: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, White Flint II, 11545 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852.
Contact:
    Registration--Sandra George, Phone: [phone]; E-mail: 
[e-mail]

General--
    Carol S. Smidts, Phone: [phone]; E-mail: [e-mail]
    Ming Li, Phone: [phone]; E-mail: [e-mail]
    Robert Brill, Phone: [phone]; E-mail: [e-mail]

    Attendance: This workshop is free and open to the general public. 
All individuals planning to attend should pre-register with Ms. Sandra 
George by telephone or e-mail and provide their name, affiliation, 
phone number, and e-mail address.
    Program: The workshop will be a mix of presentations and working 
group discussions. During the first day, the challenges of finding 
software reliability models for safety critical applications will be 
examined. A preliminary study identifying practical potential candidate 
models and their associated software metrics will be discussed by a 
panel of eminent researchers and practitioners in the fields of 
software engineering, software reliability engineering and software-
based digital systems. During the second day, the panel will divide 
into working groups to evaluate each of the models and recommend the 
best models which could be used to evaluate the software reliability of 
digital systems. As part of this effort, the working groups will 
explore the need for any additional software metrics to strengthen the 
models chosen.

    Dated in Rockville, Maryland this 23rd day of July, 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John W. Craig,
Director, Division of Engineering Technology, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 99-19364 Filed 7-28-99; 8:45 am]
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