Re: Help with finding a reachearch question for my exam paper

"Béatrice Karjalainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi!
> I'm a system analysis student at Luleå university of technology in
> Sweden and is about to write my exam paper for a master degree.
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> My special intrests are specifications and man-machine interface but
> I'm open to sugesstions that invole other things as well but it shall
> not be any programming involved (we only have 10 weeks to do teh paper
> and I feel that I'm not that good in programming so I can manage to
> both do the research work, writing and programming within that time)
>
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> You can also send your suggestions via mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> /Béatrice

Some books that may be of interest:

Safeware - System Safety and Computers
Nancy G. Leveson
ISBN 0-201-11972-2

Software Fundamentals  - Collected Papers by David L. Parnas
Hoffman, Weiss
ISBN  0-201-70369-6
These two books are focused on software and computer systems but are about
design not programming

Also,
Engineering Complex Systems  - With Models and Objects
Oliver, Kelliher, Keegan
ISBN  0-07-048188-1

And IMHO, required reading for those involved with safety critical systems
Normal Accidents -  Living with High Risk Technologies
Charles Perrow
ISBN 0-465-05143-x
    Not an engineering book but worth reading.

    Medvedev's "Legacy of Chernobyl"  had some interesting sections,
particularly with respect to "systemic" failures related to that incident.
Unfortunately I don't have a copy handy.

    Maybe you could look at  The Man-machine Interface as a tool to improve
Critical Systems Integrity".

Good Luck