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Prof. Lorenzo Strigini

Current Position:

Professor of Systems Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Principal Investigator - AMBER , ReSIST
• Senior research tutor for CSR

Research Interests:

• Software/system dependability assessment
• Diversity and software fault tolerance
• Dependability and fault tolerance in socio-technical systems
• Bayesian methods
• Assessment of testing methods

Main Current Research topics:

• methods for assessing dependability in systems using diversity and for guiding the application of diversity
• interdisciplinary research in the dependability of human-machine systems (see e.g. a case study in computer aided detection of cancer)

Background: Lorenzo Strigini joined the Centre for Software Reliability in 1995. He was previously a researcher with the Institute for Information Processing of the National Research Council of Italy (IEI-CNR), and a visiting scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles and at the Bell Communication Research Laboratories, Morristown.

Current and recent research projects include INDEED, AMBER, ReSIST, CRUK, DIRC, DISPO and DOTS.

His research work has covered topics of fault-tolerant design of computer hardware and software, of high-speed networking and of reliability and safety evaluation. For IEI-CNR, he was the Principal Investigator on several projects, including the European collaborative projects DELTA-4 (on the definition of a dependable, distributed computer architecture), PDCS/PDCS2 (on the achievement and evaluation of dependability in computing systems) and SHIP (on assessing the effects of design faults on safety in industrial designs). Lorenzo Strigini has published numerous papers in international journals and conferences. He is a member of the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance.

He consults and teaches industrial courses on fault-tolerant design and on reliability assessment.

Contact Details:

Tel: 020 7040 8245 (from UK), or +44 20 7040 8245 (outside UK)

Fax: 020 7040 8585 (from UK), or  +44 20 7040 8585 (outside UK)

E-mail: l.strigini@csr.city.ac.uk

Some recent publications

• Gashi I., Popov P., Strigini S., "Fault Tolerance via Diversity for Off-The-Shelf Products: a Study with SQL Database Servers", in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 4(4), pp. 280-294, 2007.

• J. Bryans, B. Littlewood, P. Ryan and L. Strigini, "E-voting: Dependability Requirements and Design for Dependability", Workshop on Dependability and Security in e-Government (DeSeGov 2006), at First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2006, pp. 988-995, IEEE Computer Society Press, Vienna, Austria, 2006.

• Alberdi, E., Povyakalo, A. A., Strigini, L., Ayton, P., Hartswood, M., Procter, R., Slack, R., "Use of Computer Aided Detection tools in screening mammography: A multidisciplinary investigation", British Journal of Radiology, vol. 78, pp. 31-40, 2005.

• E. Alberdi, A. A. Povyakalo, L. Strigini, P. Ayton, "Effects of incorrect CAD output on human decision making in mammography", Academic Radiology, vol. 11( 8), pp. 909-918, (recipient of the 2005 Herbert M. Stauffer Award for "Best Clinical Paper" from the Association of University Radiologists), 2004.

Lorenzo's full list of research papers and abstracts / full texts

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