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safety-critical system
(redirected from Life-critical system)

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safety-critical system - A computer, electronic or electromechanical system whose failure may cause injury or death to human beings. E.g. an aircraft or nuclear power station control system. Common tools used in the design of safety-critical systems are redundancy and formal methods.

See also aeroplane rule.
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In a paper presented last week in New Orleans at the Association for Computing Machinery's conference on software for critical systems, they argue: "Without a major change in the design and verification methods used for life-critical systems, major disasters are almost certain to occur with increasing frequency.
Software failure: counting up the risks by Peterson, Ivars / Science News
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