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Risk-based classification of incidents
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Knight, John C. Greenwell, William S. Strunk, Elisabeth A. |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Description | As the penetration of software into safety-critical systems progresses, accidents and incidents involving software will inevitably become more frequent. Identifying lessons from these occurrences and applying them to existing and future systems is essential if recurrences are to be prevented. Unfortunately, investigative agencies do not have the resources to fully investigate every incident under their jurisdictions and domains of expertise and thus must prioritize certain occurrences when allocating investigative resources. In the aviation community, most investigative agencies prioritize occurrences based on the severity of their associated losses, allocating more resources to accidents resulting in injury to passengers or extensive aircraft damage. We argue that this scheme is inappropriate because it undervalues incidents whose recurrence could have a high potential for loss while overvaluing fairly straightforward accidents involving accepted risks. We then suggest a new strategy for prioritizing occurrences based on the risk arising from incident recurrence. |
| File Size | 64668 |
| Page Count | 12 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20030111721 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6p034c9q |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2003-09-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Air Transportation And Safety Aircraft Accident Investigation Classifications Losses Civil Aviation Aircraft Accidents Risk Computer Programs Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
