Department of Computer & Information Science, Linköpings Universitet

Report:

• Each student writes an individual paper documenting some reported accident in a computer-based system. The report should provide a short account of the chain of events leading to the accident and an analysis of the causes of the accident. Any material used, such as reports from an investigation committee, should be properly referenced and own conclusions made clear.
• The report should use the techniques described in the course as a framework for critical analysis of the case:
• how could the accident been avoided (by referring to the course literature)?
• which techniques could have revealed the problems (again referring to the course literature)?
• where relevant, a fault-tree drawn using the course software tool should be used to illustrate the case at an appropriate level of detail.
• The report should preferrably be around 3-5 pages long (excluding diagrams and fault trees).
• The deadline for the report is January 10th, 2001.

Presentations:

• Six of the  best handed in reports will be nominated by the examiner for presentation to the whole class. These students will be presenting the case at a three hour session (30 minutes each) to be booked around the end of January.