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A Metamodel for Representing Safety LifeCycle Development Process

Authors:
Yulin Zhang
Brahim Hamid
Damien Gouteux

Keywords: Safety lifecycle, Development process, Modelingn, Process metamodel

Abstract:
Metamodeling process supports the effort of creating flexible process models. The purpose of process models is to document and communicate processes and to enhance the reuse of processes. Thus, processes can be better taught and executed. Results of using metamodel process are an increased productivity of process engineers and an improved quality of the models they produce. However, most useful metamodels are activity-oriented, and the required concepts of safety lifecycle, such as validation, can not be easily modeled through these metamodels. In this paper, we propose a safety-oriented process metamodel to support all the requirements of safety control. As a proof of concept, we examine a process model that has several safety lifecycle requirements: the IEC 61508 safety lifecycle Vmodel standard.

Pages: 550 to 556

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: October 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-165-6

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from October 23, 2011 to October 29, 2011