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About SOFT
The SOFT series of workshops and seminars are organized by the Computer and Information Science department at Linköping University. The series is part of our effort to promote state-of-the-art software engineering technologies and methodologies and to promote communication and cooperation between the research community and the Swedish software industry.

Previous SOFT seminars have covered software reliability engineering, engineering safety-critical systems and the win-win requirements negotiation system, among many other topics.

SOFT-21 is arranged in association with Dataföreningen i Sverige, Östra kretsen and the ECSEL graduate school.

SOFTWARE ASSURANCE CERTIFICATION: TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGIES

Jeffrey Voas, Reliable Software Technologies

Linköping, September 13, 1999

JEFFREY VOAS is a co-founder and the Chief Scientist of Reliable Software Technologies. Voas has recently served as a Principle Investigator on efforts for NASA-Langley, NASA-Ames, DARPA, National Science Foundation, the USAF, and the US Army. He has published over 125 journal and conference papers. Voas has co-authored a text entitled "Software Assessment: Reliability, Safety, Testability" (John Wiley & Sons, 1995) and a second text entitled "Software Fault Injection: Inoculating Programs Against Errors" (Wiley & Sons, 1998.) Voas was the special editor of the June, 1998 IEEE Computer theme issue on "Commercial Off-The-Shelf Software," and is the special guest editor for the July 1999 issue of IEEE Software focusing on "Software Certification."

Voas was the conference chair for COMPASS'97 and serves on the editorial board for the Software Quality Professional Journal, IEEE Software and IT Pro. Voas is on the board of trustees for the Center for National Software Studies, is the executive secretary of the IEEE Reliability Society, is the program chair for the 1999 International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'99), and is co-program chair for the International Conference on Software Maintenance '2000. Voas is a member of the IEEE-USA's Technical Policy Council on R&D in the United States, and is the Chairman for the task force that is creating a new technical committee on Software Assurance under the IEEE's Computer Society. In 1994, the Journal of Systems and Software ranked Voas 6th among the 15 top scholars in Systems and Software Engineering. Voas was given the District of Columbia Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies Young Engineer of the Year award in 1999. Voas is a senior member of the IEEE and received a Ph.D. in computer science from the college of William & Mary in 1990. Voas's current research interests include information security metrics, software dependability metrics, software certification, software liability law and information warfare tactics.