MSc in Safety Critical Systems

Student Projects

If you would like to look at a copy of this project please contact Mark Nicholson (mark@cs.york.ac.uk).

Projects of 2008

ProjectId

Course

Title

Author

Supervisor

98

MScSCSE

An Independent Safety Auditor's View of Data Off The Shelf

M. Clarke

D. J. Pumfrey

99

MScSCSE

Arguing the Safety of FPGAs within Safety Critical Systems

J. Clegg

P. Conmy

100

MScSCSE

'Advisory Only' Status for Aircraft Systems with a Protective Function

T. Corkery

D. J. Pumfrey

101

MScSCSE

Safety Tactics for Reconfigurable Process Control Devices

A. Hill

M. Nicholson

102

MScSCSE

Civil Airworthiness for a UAV Control Station

C. Hodson

M. Nicholson

103

MScSCSE

U sing Safety Contracts to Identify Regression Tests for Modular Systems

C. Hollinshead

M. Nicholson

104

MScSCSE

Maintenance for SIL Partitioned Systems

N. McAllister

D. J. Pumfrey

105

MScSCSE

Managing Assumptions for Safety Critical Projects

A. Shore

T. P. Kelly

106

MScSCSE

Safety of Data in Real-Time Distributed Systems

A. Wake

M. Nicholson

Projects of 2007

ProjectId

Course

Title

Author

Supervisor

153

MScSCSE

A Method for Effective Safety Management of Materials in Defence Systems

P. Benton

T. Kelly

154

MScSCSE

Avoiding Complacency, Ensuring Complacency :Human Factors and Considerations
Applicable to United Kingdom Military Air Traffic Control

S. Elks

H. L. Petrie

155

MScSCSE

Managing the Safe Integration of Complex Systems

C. Eskdale

T. Kelly

157

MScSCSE

Establishing a Product Line Safety Case - For a Logistic Vehicle Fleet

H. Page

T. Kelly

158

MScSCSE

Use of Contracts in the Modularisation of Complex Fault Trees

M. Price

R. Allerton

159

MScSCSE

Integrating the ALARP Principle with the use of Safety Integrity Levels

J. Shuttleworth

T. Kelly

160

MScSCSE

Safety integrity of data

M. Templeton

R. Allerton

163

MScSCSE

The Retrospective Application of BS EN 61508

D. Muir

D. J. Pumfrey

165

MScSCSE

Development of an Operational safety Case Within an Existing Safety Management
System Environment

M. Jones

T. Kelly

172

MScSCSE

Tool Qualification, A Generic Argument for safe application of tools to a Safety Critical Software Project

D. J. Pritchard

M. Nicholson

173

MScSCSE

Profiling of IEC 61508, Functional Safety of Electrical/Electronic/Programmable Electronic Safety-Related Systems, for the Assessment and Evaluation of Legacy Systems

S. Ferguson

J. A. McDermid

Projects of 2006

ProjectId

Course

Title

Author

Supervisor

90

MScSCSE

Assessing the Use of a Safety and Support Questionnaire in Support of a Service Modification Process

A. D. H. Gower

M. Nicholson

138

MScSCSE

Tram Projects - An Integrated Approach

P. Alliott

D. Pumfrey

139

MScSCSE

Towards a UML Profile and Process for Building Safety Related Object Oriented Software

C. Chorley

R. F. Paige

140

MScSCSE

Mechanisms for High Integrity Signalling

M. Clayton

S. De Souza

141

MScSCSE

Research into the Extensions required to the MilCAN Protocol for its use in Safety Critical Systems

A. Crolla

S. De Souza

143

MScSCSE

The Hazards of Unmanned Air Vehicle Integration into Unsegregated Airspace

A. Evans

M. Nicholson

144

MScSCSE

The “Development Risks” Defence (Consumer Protection Act 1987) An Engineering Viewpoint

A. Harrison

D. Pumfrey

145

MScSCSE

Extension in Current Safety Assessment Process to Incorporate System Induced Human Failures

E. Pittaway

M. Nicholson

146

MScSCSE

Establishing and Using Data Bus Safety Arguments

M. Place

T. Kelly

148

MScSCSE

Managing Operational Safety Case in High-Risk Systems

M. Salter

M. Nicholson

149

MScSCSE

Formal Methods in Railway Signalling

R. Watson

J. C. P. Woodcock

150

MScSCSE

The Development of Programmable Logic Devices for use in Safety Critical Systems`

G. White

R. Allarton

151

MScSCSE

The use of ALARP safety justifications at the level of sub systems

G. Wilkinson

D. Pumfrey

Projects of 2005

ProjectId

Course

Title

Author

Supervisor

134

MScSCSE

Human Factors Contracts for Safety Critical Systems

R. Barraclough

M. Nicholson

135

MScSCSE

A New Approach for the Production and Application of an MEL

L. Hegarty

D. Pumfrey

136

MScSCSE

The Move to Performance based standards - managing uncertainty

K. Moore

M. Nicholson

137

MScSCSE

Integration Modelling of Process Industry Safety Initiatives

D. Huw Morgan

M. Nicholson

138

MScSCSE

Addressing the Inconsistencies in the Offshore Safety Case

S. Taylor

T. Kelly

143

MScSCSE

Evaluating safety related image integrity over visual communication systems

A. Eaton

M. Nicholson

Projects of 2004

ProjectId

Course

Title

Author

Supervisor

159

MScSCSE

Exploring the Possibilities Towards a Preliminary Safety Case for IMA Blueprints

G. Jolliffe

M. Nicholson

160

MScSCSE

Military Airbourne Safety Arguments: A innovative approach to both the Military Aircraft
Release airworthiness justification and it\'s re-trace and audit requirements

G. Brown

T. P. Kelly

161

MScSCSE

Use of the C++ Programming Language in Safety Critical Systems

D. W. Reinhardt

T. P. Kelly

162

MScSCSE

Managing Safety during Design Change

A. Vaughan

T. P. Kelly

163

MScSCSE

Introducing Systematic Reuse into Military ATC Safety Case Management

M. Warren

T. P. Kelly

164

MScSCSE

Fault Tree Analysis - more than just minimum cut set generation

T. White

D. J. Pumfrey

227

MScSCSE

Issues Surrounding the Development of Operational Safety Cases in the UK Military Aerospace Domain

C. Blagrove

D. J. Pumfrey

Projects of 2003

ProjectId

Course

Title

Author

Supervisor

134

MScSCSE

Safety Process Measurement

P. Caseley

J. Clark

178

MScSCSE

Streamlining Safety Case Development: A Railway Signalling Example

Z. Alderman

T. Kelly

179

MScSCSE

Communicating Safety Assurance - A Case Study

J. Fenn

T. Kelly

180

MScSCSE

The Systematic Use of Fault Tolerant Software Engineering Techniques Applied
to Legacy Code

G.McCall

T. Kelly

181

MScSCSE

Using \'low integrity\' data and components in a Safety-Critical System

A. Ward

D. Pumfrey

Projects of 2002

ProjectId

Course

Title

Author

Supervisor

169

MScSCSE

An Human Error Analysis of Operational Engineering Procedures and a Theoretical Discussion on Procedure Violation

P. Bateman

P. C. Wright

170

MScSCSE

Maintenance of the Certification Basis for a Distributed Control System - Developing a Safety Case Architecture

M. Dowding

T. P. Kelly

171

MScSCSE

Safety Analysis of UML based Software Specifications

P. Edwards

unknown

172

MScSCSE

"Heavy Modifications": A Three Stage Safety Process for Modification of Undocumented Legacy Systems

K. Graham

D. J. Pumfrey

173

MScSCSE

Maintenance of Safety Related and Safety Critical Software in the Royal Air Force

M. Shuker

J. Clark

185

MScSCSE

Structured Safety Case Evaluation: A Systematic Approach to Safety Case Review

P. Mayo

T. P. Kelly

186

MScSCSE

Investigation of Preliminary System Safety Assessment (PSSA) in the Air Traffic Management Environment

M. Oliver

J. Clark

Projects of 2001

ProjectId

Course

Title

Author

Supervisor

147

MScSCSE

Using Formal Methods to Validate Geographical Data for Railway Signalling Systems

Rabade Blanco

S. King

148

MScSCSE

From Clouds to Concrete - The pragmatic application of Goal Structured Notation to
operational safety cases
within civil Air Traffic Control

K. Cartmale

T. Kelly

149

MScSCSE

The Eurofighter 'Operational' Safety Case

L. Henery

T. Kelly

150

MScSCSE

Towards an Industrially Applicable Model Checker for Railway Signalling Data

M. Huber

S. King

151

MScSCSE

Safety Case Augmentation

K. Keen

T. Kelly

152

MScSCSE

Applying Safety Techniques in Security

J. Lynch

J. Clark

153

MScSCSE

Application of Hazop Type Techniques in an Industrial Context

P. Miles

J. Clark

154

MScSCSE

UML Patterns for Real-Time Systems

Alejandra Stolk

I. Wand

155

MScSCSE

A Pragmatic Evaluation of an Integrated Approach to System Safety Assessment

P. Williams

T. Kelly

Projects of 2000

ProjectId

Course

Title

Author

Supervisor

175

MScSCSE

Frameworks for Managing Complex Synthetic Environments

V. Brennan

S. King

176

MScSCSE

A Comparative Study Of The Safety Integrity Level Concept For Use
In Quantitative Risk Assessment

P. Brown

T. Kelly

177

MScSCSE

Safety Case Strategies for COTS Software

G. M. Coates

T. Kelly

178

MScSCSE

Software Safety and Supportability Analysis

S. D. Nucci

M. Nicholson

179

MScSCSE

Effectiveness of the SPARK Toolset in Checking for Run-Time Errors in Safety-Critical Software

D. Foulger

S. King

180

MScSCSE

Tool Support for Different Styles of Refinement in Z

E. Kellaway

S. King

 

Projects of 1999

ProjectId

Course

Title

Author

Supervisor

146

MScSCSE

Impact of Integration on Safety Critical Avionic Systems

A. Cox

N. Audsley

147

MScSCSE

Review of Railtrack's Methodology for Ensuring Preparedness for Disruption to Operational Processes:
And its Application to the Management of Broken Rails

A. L. Backhouse

J. Moffett

148

MScSCSE

The Utilisation of the Java Language In Safety Critical System Development

S. Bentley

I. C. Wand

149

MScSCSE

The Cost of Security on the Internet

A. D. Brydon

J. Moffett

150

MScSCSE

Derivation of Safety Targets for the Random Failure of Programmable Vehicle Based Systems

R. Evans

J. Moffett

151

MScSCSE

Security and Electronic Commerce

I-Yu Wang

J. Moffett

152

MScSCSE

A Pragmatic Application of the ALARP Principle To Software

S. Woods

T. Kelly

Projects of 1998

ProjectId

Course

Title

Author

Supervisor

141

MScSCSE

Casual Animator

E. Chatzikyriakos

J. Moffett

142

MScSCSE

Test Case Generation from Requirements Specification

E. Grigoriadis

J. Moffett & A. Vickers

143

MScSCSE

The MATRIXx Notation's Semantics and Principles of Formal Code Generation

C. E. Parker

S. King

144

MScSCSE

Integration of Safety and Security Requirements in Information Systems

D. Eames

J. Moffett

145

MScSCSE

Comparison of Refinement Styles

C. Plummer

S. King

146

MScSCSE

Fixed Priority Timing Analysis and Real-Time Networks

R. White

A. Burns

147

MScSCSE

Multi-Integrity Level Software on Uni-Processor Systems

S. Hutchesson

unknown

148

MScSCSE

The Automatic Generation of High-Integrity Ada Code for Safety Critical Applications

M. Bardill

I. Wand

149

MScSCSE

Analysis of Software Designs for Non Functional Properties

T. Hopwood

A. Vickers & J. Moffett

150

MScSCSE

Patterns for Safety-Critical Systems

R. W. Born

I. Wand

Projects of 1997

ProjectId

Course

Title

Author

Supervisor

114

MScSCSE

Implementing an Abstraction Tool to Tackle the State Explosion Problem in Model Checking

F. Fotopoulos

S. King

115

MScSCSE

Safety Analysis for Command and Control Systems

J. D. C. Savage

J. Clark

116

MScSCSE

Assessing Computer Systems for Human Error

B. O. Thomas

M. Harrison

117

MScSCSE

Formal Methods in PLC Programming

A. Cole

J. Clark

Projects of 1996

ProjectId

Course

Title

Author

Supervisor

116

MScSCSE

The Application of Formal Methods to the Development of Railway
Signalling Software

H. Anagnostopoulos

I. C. Wand

117

MScSCSE

Investigations into the integration of timing constraints with the B method

B. Hemeury

S. King

118

MScSCSE

The Verification of the Design of Railway Networks

E. L. Raili

S. King

119

MScSCSE

Integrating Requirements Specification and Safety Analysis Techniques

G. Taylor

A. J. Vickers