DIRC: Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Dependability

Because society is increasingly reliant on computer systems. Much scientific progress has been made in achieving high dependability in computer hardware and software, but wider systems involving computers, people and business or social organisations are often disastrously unsuccessful and the cause of huge financial losses or worse. It is evident that satisfactory resolution of this dangerous situation demands major breakthroughs in understanding the fundamental problems that arise in attempts to build systems involving complex interactions amongst numbers of computers and human beings. This large EPSRC funded project, involving five UK universities, has a number of key research themes, one of these is timing which is the focus of the work at York.

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