Safety Assurance under Uncertainties: From Software to Cyber-Physical/Machine Learning Systems

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Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Fuyuki Ishikawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Safety Assurance under Uncertainties

From Software to Cyber-Physical/Machine Learning Systems

Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan), Fuyuki Ishikawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

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CRC Press
13 May 2025

Electronics engineering; Supercomputers; Software Engineering; Computer architecture & logic design; Artificial intelligence

Safety assurance of software systems has never been as imminent a problem as it is today. Practitioners and researchers who work on the problem face a challenge unique to modern software systems: uncertainties. For one, the cyber-physical nature of modern software systems as exemplified by automated driving systems mandates environmental uncertainties to be addressed and the resulting hazards to be mitigated. Besides, the abundance of statistical machine-learning components massive numerical computing units for statistical reasoning such as deep neural networks make systems hard to explain, understand, analyze or verify.

The book is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of such united and interdisciplinary efforts. Driven by automated driving systems as a leading example, the book describes diverse techniques to specify, model, test, analyze, and verify modern software systems. Coming out of a collaboration between industry and basic academic research, the book covers both practical analysis techniques (readily applicable to existing systems) and more long-range design techniques (that call for new designs but bring a greater degree of assurance).

The book provides high-level intuitions and use-cases of each technique, rather than technical details, with plenty of pointers for interested readers.

Edited by: Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics Japan), Fuyuki Ishikawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 840g
ISBN: 9780367554019
ISBN 10: 0367554011
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 13 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Ichiro Hasuo, Ph.D. (cum laude, Radboud University Nijmegen, 2008), is a Professor at National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan. He is at the same time the Research Director of the JST ERATO ""Metamathematics for Systems Design'' Project, and the Director of Research Center for Mathematical Trust in Software and Systems at NII. His research field is software science and his interests include formal verification, mathematical and logical structures, category theory, integration of formal methods and testing, and application to cyber-physical systems and systems with statistical machine learning components. Fuyuki Ishikawa, Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo, 2007), is an Associate Professor in Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division and the Director of GRACE Center, at National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan. His research focuses on software engineering, especially for dependability of emerging AI and smart cyber-physical systems, including test generation, fault analysis, automated repair, and formal verification for automated driving systems. He is leading relevant initiatives of the Japanese industry such as the QA4AI guidelines for quality assurance of AI systems.