The Australian Computer Society

Sponsored by the ACS's Technical Committee on Safety Critical Systems.

The Australian Computer Society's Technical Committee on Safety Critical Systems (SCS) 7th National Workshop on Safety Critical Systems and Software was held in Adelaide over 1.5 days and attracted over 70 participants.

This year's workshop featured keynote addresses by international software safety experts Professor John McDermid (University of York, UK), Dr John Rushby (SRI International, USA), and Felix Redmill (Convener of the UK SCS Club). The international speaker program was partially funded by the Department of Education, Science and Training's Frontiers of S&T Missions and Workshops component of the Innovation Access Program administered by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).

The workshop included the launch of the Australian Safety Critical Systems Club.

Click here for the workshop program including copies of some of the presentations. The workshop proceedings will appear as Volume 15 of the ACS's Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology series.

The ACS held similar workshops in Brisbane in 1996, in Sydney in 1997, in Adelaide in 1998, in Canberra in 1999 in Melbourne in 2000 and in Brisbane in 2001. Each event attracted more than 35 participants nationally and internationally.

For questions about the SCS 2002 Workshop Program, please contact:

Copies of the 1996-2000 proceedings are available for $95 from Kevin Anderson (phone +61 3 9602 4747).

On-line outputs from previous workshops:

• SCS'01 workshop program and papers
• SCS'00 workshop program
• SCS'99 workshop program
• SCS'98 workshop program
• the tutorial on formal methods from SCS'98
• SCS'97 workshop
• a report on the SCS'97 panel discussion on software safety standards
• copies of the SCS'97 papers

SCS 2002 workshop program and talks