Welcome to the Centre for Software Reliability
The Centre for Software Reliability (CSR) at City University is an independent Research Centre in the School of Informatics, founded in 1983. CSR has an international reputation for its research achievements in the areas of:
- Dependability assessment and assurance of socio-technical systems
- Diversity as a means for achieving and assessing dependability and fault-tolerance
- Quantitative assessment of the means for achieving dependability
- Fundamental issues for safety critical systems
Since the 1996 research Assessment Exercise (RAE), CSR has attracted funding of more than £5 million in research grants and contracts, of which more than £2.7 million comes from the UK's Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC).
News
- Short courses and CPD: The Centre is now offering a series of one-day awareness events and Masters-level Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses on topics related to resilience, assurance, and risk management for computer-based systems. This Spring's calendar begins on 1-5 March 2010 with a CPD course on Fault-Tolerant Design of Computer Systems. For a full list of the courses available, click here.
- Reliability Committee of Intellect: On 21 January 2010 Prof Bev Littlewood gave a talk on Software Reliability to the Reliability Committee of Intellect (the UK trade body that represents software and IT organisations to government and the media).
- Times Higher Education Supplement: Dr Stroud's appointment to CSR and his role in developing the new MSc course was announced in the Times Higher Education Supplement - see the news story.
- Letter in The Guardian newspaper (NEI): Professor Bev Littlewood and Professor Robin Bloomfield had a letter published in the Guardian about the need for the Nuclear Safety Advisory Committee to be re-instated in order to ensure that there is independent oversight of nuclear safety - see the news story.
- Article in Nuclear Engineering International (NEI): Professor Bev Littlewood was interviewed for an article in the August 2009 edition of Nuclear Engineering International about British regulatory objections to the European Pressurised Reactor's instrumentation and control system, in which he argued that the regulator's reasoning was sound. Concerns have also been raised by the Finnish and the French regulators - see the news story.
- Safety-Critical Systems Club: Professor Bev Littlewood will be speaking at a seminar entitled "Providing Confidence in Safety Judgements" in London on Thursday 26th November 2009. The seminar has been organised by the Safety-Critical Systems Club. For more details, and to book a place, click here.
- New appointment: Dr Robert Stroud has recently joined CSR as a Reader in Security and Dependability. Dr Stroud was previously a member of CSR, Newcastle, and has worked with CSR, City on a number of European collaborative research projects. He also has experience of working for Google as a Site Reliability Engineer.
- Best paper award: A paper co-authored by Dr Ilir Gashi and Dr Vladimir Stankovic from CSR is the recipient of this year's Best Paper award from the IEEE NCA (Network Computing and Applications) Symposium. The paper, titled "An Experimental Study of Diversity with Off-The-Shelf AntiVirus Engines", is co-authored with colleagues from Symantec Research and Eurecom in Sophia Antipolis, France, and from The Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium.