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Readings

Readings for the course are from Leveson, "Safeware: System Safety and Computers," Addison-Wesley, 1995; and from a draft of the instructor's new book, which is available online (referenced below as "New").

SES # READINGS
1 Safeware. Ch. 1, 2, 7, 8 and 9.
New. Ch. 1 and 4.
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/book2.pdf
MIL-STD882B (PDF)
2 Safeware. Ch. 3, 4 and 5.
 Aerospace Accidents paper (PDF)
3 Safeware. Ch. 10.
New. Ch. 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7.
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/book2.pdf
• Rasmussen, Jens. "Risk Management in a Dynamic Society: A Modelling Problem." Safety Science Vol. 27, No. 2/3: 183-213
Intent Specifications paper (PDF)
4 Safeware. Ch. 13 and 14.
• Jeff Joyce paper (PDF)
5 Safeware. Ch. 15.
7 Safeware. Ch. 16.
• Knight and Leveson
• A Reply to Our Critics (PDF)
8 Safeware. Ch. 6 and 17.
• Bachelder, Edward, Nancy Leveson "Describing and Probing Complex System Behavior: A Graphical Approach" In the Proceedings of the Aviation Safety Conference, Seattle, Sept. 2001.
9 DOE standard
• NASA standard
10 Time to catch up
11 • Carroll, John S. "Organizational Learning Activities in High-Hazard Industries: The Logics Underlying Self-Analysis."  Journal of Management Studies, in press.
• Carroll, John S., Jenny W. Rudolph, Sachi Hatenaka.  "Learning from Experience in High-Hazard Organizations."  Submitted to Research in Organizational Behavior.
12 Safeware.  Ch. 11, 12 and 18.
13 • Safeware: Epilogue, pp. 509-511.
• SpecTRM methodology (PDF)