Dr David Parker's Outputs (24)

Addressing Complexity and Intelligence in Systems Dependability Evaluation (2023)
Thesis
Aslansefat, K. Addressing Complexity and Intelligence in Systems Dependability Evaluation. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4500562

Engineering and computing systems are increasingly complex, intelligent, and open adaptive. When it comes to the dependability evaluation of such systems, there are certain challenges posed by the characteristics of “complexity” and “intelligence”. T... Read More about Addressing Complexity and Intelligence in Systems Dependability Evaluation.

Teaching students using Design-First Test-Driven Development (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dixon, J., Brayshaw, M., Gordon, N., Grey, S., Parker, D., & Tompsett, B. (2022, June). Teaching students using Design-First Test-Driven Development. Presented at INSPIRE XXVII: E-Learning for Sustainabilty and Education Beyond Pandemic, Online

This paper explores a test-driven approach to teaching within Higher Education. Test-driven here is derived from the Software Engineering approach, where the test cases for software are defined prior to the software being fully developed. The emphasi... Read More about Teaching students using Design-First Test-Driven Development.

The Role of Gamification in a Software Development Lifecycle (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gordon, N., Brayshaw, M., Dixon, J., Grey, S., & Parker, D. (2021, June). The Role of Gamification in a Software Development Lifecycle. Presented at INSPIRE XXVI International e-conference, Online

Teaching Software Engineering students raises a number of challenges; in particular that student developers typically demonstrate behaviours that run counter to good software development. These include failing to plan properly, failing to develop the... Read More about The Role of Gamification in a Software Development Lifecycle.

Failure Mode Reasoning in Model Based Safety Analysis (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jahanian, H., Parker, D., Zeller, M., McIver, A., & Papadopoulos, Y. Failure Mode Reasoning in Model Based Safety Analysis. Presented at International Symposium on Model-Based Safety and Assessment, Lisbon, Portugal

© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Failure Mode Reasoning (FMR) is a novel approach for analyzing failure in a Safety Instrumented System (SIS). The method uses an automatic analysis of an SIS program to calculate potential failures in parts of... Read More about Failure Mode Reasoning in Model Based Safety Analysis.

An Integrated Approach to Support the Process-Based Certification of Variant-Intensive Systems (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bressan, L., de Oliveira, A. L., Campos, F., Papadopoulos, Y., & Parker, D. An Integrated Approach to Support the Process-Based Certification of Variant-Intensive Systems. Presented at Model-Based Safety and Assessment 7th International Symposium, IMBSA 2020, Lisbon, Portugal

© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Component-based approaches and software product lines have been adopted by industry to manage the diversity of configurations on safety-critical software. Safety certification demands compliance with standards.... Read More about An Integrated Approach to Support the Process-Based Certification of Variant-Intensive Systems.

Variability management in safety-critical systems design and dependability analysis (2019)
Journal Article
de Oliveira, A. L., Braga, R., Masiero, P., Parker, D., Papadopoulos, Y., Habli, I., & Kelly, T. (2019). Variability management in safety-critical systems design and dependability analysis. Journal of software : evolution and process, 31(8), Article e2202. https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.2202

Safety-critical systems are of paramount importance for many application domains, where safety properties are a key driver to engineer critical aspects and avoid system failures. For the benefits of large-scale reuse, software product lines (SPL) hav... Read More about Variability management in safety-critical systems design and dependability analysis.

Constraints and autonomy for creativity in extracurricular gamejams and curricular assessment (2018)
Journal Article
Grey, S., Parker, D., & Gordon, N. (2018). Constraints and autonomy for creativity in extracurricular gamejams and curricular assessment. Research in Learning Technology, 26, Article 2023. https://doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v26.2023

The engagement observed by the players of the games that they play is a desirable quality that has not gone unnoticed in the field of education, leading to concepts such as gamification of education, game-based learning and serious games for training... Read More about Constraints and autonomy for creativity in extracurricular gamejams and curricular assessment.

A Study of Automatic Allocation of Automotive Safety Requirements in Two Modes: Components and Failure Modes (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Parker, D., Godof, A., Papadopoulos, Y., & Saintis, L. (2018, April). A Study of Automatic Allocation of Automotive Safety Requirements in Two Modes: Components and Failure Modes. Presented at SAE Technical Papers

ISO 26262 describes a safety engineering approach in which the safety of a system is considered from the early stages of design through a process of elicitation and allocation of system safety requirements. These are expressed as automotive safety in... Read More about A Study of Automatic Allocation of Automotive Safety Requirements in Two Modes: Components and Failure Modes.

A model-based extension to HiP-HOPS for dynamic fault propagation studies (2017)
Journal Article
Kabir, S., Papadopoulos, Y., Walker, M., Parker, D., Aizpurua, J. I., Lampe, J., & Rüde, E. (2017). A model-based extension to HiP-HOPS for dynamic fault propagation studies. Lecture notes in computer science, 10437 LNCS, 163-178. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64119-5_11

HiP-HOPS is a model-based approach for assessing the dependability of safety-critical systems. The method combines models, logic, probabilities and nature-inspired algorithms to provide advanced capabilities for design optimisation, requirement alloc... Read More about A model-based extension to HiP-HOPS for dynamic fault propagation studies.

Model-connected safety cases (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Retouniotis, A., Papadopoulos, Y., Sorokos, I., Parker, D., Matragkas, N., & Sharvia, S. Model-connected safety cases

© 2017, Springer International Publishing AG. We propose the concept of a model-connected safety case that could simplify certification of complex systems. System design models support the synthesis of both the structure of the safety case and the ev... Read More about Model-connected safety cases.

A synthesis of logic and bio-inspired techniques in the design of dependable systems (2016)
Journal Article
Papadopoulos, Y., Walker, M., Parker, D., Sharvia, S., Bottaci, L., Kabir, S., Azevedo, L., & Sorokos, I. (2016). A synthesis of logic and bio-inspired techniques in the design of dependable systems. Annual Reviews in Control, 41, 170-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arcontrol.2016.04.008

Much of the development of model-based design and dependability analysis in the design of dependable systems, including software intensive systems, can be attributed to the application of advances in formal logic and its application to fault forecast... Read More about A synthesis of logic and bio-inspired techniques in the design of dependable systems.

Automatic allocation of safety requirements to components of a software product line (2015)
Journal Article
De Oliveira, A. L., Papadopoulos, Y., Azevedo, L. S., Parker, D., Braga, R. T., Masiero, P. C., Habli, I., & Kelly, T. (2015). Automatic allocation of safety requirements to components of a software product line. IFAC Proceedings Volumes/ International Federation of Automatic Control, 48(21), 1309-1314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.09.706

Safety critical systems developed as part of a product line must still comply with safety standards. Standards use the concept of Safety Integrity Levels (SILs) to drive the assignment of system safety requirements to components of a system under des... Read More about Automatic allocation of safety requirements to components of a software product line.

Automating allocation of development assurance levels: An extension to HiP-HOPS (2015)
Journal Article
Sorokos, I., Papadopoulos, Y., Azevedo, L., Parker, D., & Walker, M. (2015). Automating allocation of development assurance levels: An extension to HiP-HOPS. IFAC Proceedings Volumes/ International Federation of Automatic Control, 48(7), 9-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.06.466

Controlling the allocation of safety requirements across a system's architecture from the early stages of development is an aspiration embodied in numerous major safety standards. Manual approaches of applying this process in practice are ineffective... Read More about Automating allocation of development assurance levels: An extension to HiP-HOPS.

Exploring the impact of different cost heuristics in the allocation of safety integrity levels (2014)
Journal Article
Azevedo, L. S., Parker, D., Papadopoulos, Y., Walker, M., Sorokos, I., & Araújo, R. E. (2014). Exploring the impact of different cost heuristics in the allocation of safety integrity levels. Lecture notes in computer science, 8822, 70-81. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12214-4_6

Contemporary safety standards prescribe processes in which system safety requirements, captured early and expressed in the form of Safety Integrity Levels (SILs), are iteratively allocated to architectural elements. Different SILs reflect different r... Read More about Exploring the impact of different cost heuristics in the allocation of safety integrity levels.

Automatic optimisation of system architectures using EAST-ADL (2013)
Journal Article
Walker, M., Reiser, M.-O., Tucci-Piergiovanni, S., Papadopoulos, Y., Lönn, H., Mraidha, C., Parker, D., Chen, D., & Servat, D. (2013). Automatic optimisation of system architectures using EAST-ADL. Journal of Systems and Software, 86(10), 2467-2487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2013.04.001

There are many challenges which face designers of complex system architectures, particularly safety-critical or real-time systems. The introduction of Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) has helped to meet these challenges by consolidating info... Read More about Automatic optimisation of system architectures using EAST-ADL.

Assisted assignment of automotive safety requirements (2013)
Journal Article
Azevedo, L. D. S., Parker, D., Walker, M., Papadopoulos, Y., & Araújo, R. E. (2014). Assisted assignment of automotive safety requirements. IEEE Software, 31(1), 62-68. https://doi.org/10.1109/ms.2013.118

ISO 26262, a functional-safety standard, uses Automotive Safety Integrity Levels (ASILs) to assign safety requirements to automotive-system elements. System designers initially assign ASILs to system-level hazards and then allocate them to elements o... Read More about Assisted assignment of automotive safety requirements.

An approach to optimization of fault tolerant architectures using HiP-HOPS (2011)
Journal Article
Adachi, M., Papadopoulos, Y., Sharvia, S., Parker, D., & Tohdo, T. (2011). An approach to optimization of fault tolerant architectures using HiP-HOPS. Software: Practice and Experience, 41(11), 1303-1327. https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.1044

New processes for the design of dependable systems must address both cost and dependability concerns. They should also maximize the potential for automation to address the problem of increasing technological complexity and the potentially immense des... Read More about An approach to optimization of fault tolerant architectures using HiP-HOPS.

Dynamic effect of perfect preventive maintenance on system reliability and cost using HiP-HOPS (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nggada, S. H., Parker, D. J., & Papadopoulos, Y. I. Dynamic effect of perfect preventive maintenance on system reliability and cost using HiP-HOPS

The occurrence of failure in a safety critical engineering system can be reduced through the use of preventive maintenance (PM). Each time a component of the system is maintained its effective age is reduced; the extent of this age reduction depends... Read More about Dynamic effect of perfect preventive maintenance on system reliability and cost using HiP-HOPS.

Engineering failure analysis and design optimisation with HiP-HOPS (2010)
Journal Article
Papadopoulos, Y., Walker, M., Parker, D., Rüde, E., Hamann, R., Uhlig, A., Grätz, U., & Lien, R. (2011). Engineering failure analysis and design optimisation with HiP-HOPS. Engineering Failure Analysis, 18(2), 590-608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfailanal.2010.09.025

The scale and complexity of computer-based safety critical systems, like those used in the transport and manufacturing industries, pose significant challenges for failure analysis. Over the last decade, research has focused on automating this task. I... Read More about Engineering failure analysis and design optimisation with HiP-HOPS.

Extending HiP-HOPS with Capabilities of Planning Preventative Maintenance (2010)
Book Chapter
Parker, D., & Papadopoulos, Y. (2010). Extending HiP-HOPS with Capabilities of Planning Preventative Maintenance. In M. Sarrafzadeh, & P. Petratos (Eds.), Strategic Advantage of Computing Information Systems in Enterprise Management (231 - 245). ATINER

An effective preventive maintenance (PM) policy for components of an engineering system slows down the rate at which component fatigue accumulates, thereby minimising the occurrence of component failure. The benefit of PM at system level is improveme... Read More about Extending HiP-HOPS with Capabilities of Planning Preventative Maintenance.