29 July 1999
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[Federal Register: July 29, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 145)]
[Notices]
[Page 41171]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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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: 301-405-6659; E-mail:
sgeorge@eng.umd.edu

General--
    Carol S. Smidts, Phone: 301-405-7314; E-mail: csmidts@eng.umd.edu
    Ming Li, Phone: 301-405-1071; E-mail: mli@eng.umd.edu
    Robert Brill, Phone: 301-415-6760; E-mail: rwb2@nrc.gov

    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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