Publications
"The future of goal-based assurance cases "
P.G. Bishop, Robin Bloomfield and Sofia
Guerra, in Proceedings of Workshop on Assurance Cases.
Supplemental Volume of the 2004 International Conference
on Dependable Systems and Networks, pp. 390-395,
Florence, Italy, June 2004.
"Estimating PLC logic program reliability"
PG Bishop, Safety Critical Systems
Symposium, Birmingham, pp 179-193, Springer, 17th-19th
February, 2004
"Integrity Static Analysis of COTS/SOUP"
Bishop, P.G., Bloomfield, R.E., Clement, T.P,
Guerra, A.S.L. and Jones, C.C.M., SAFECOMP 2003, pp.
63-76, 21-25 Sep, Edinburgh, UK, 2003
"Using a Log-normal Failure Rate
Distribution for Worst Case Bound Reliability
Prediction"
Bishop, P.G., Bloomfield, R.E., ISSRE 2003,
pp. 237-245, 17-20 November, Denver, Colorado, USA, 2003
"MC/DC based estimation and detection
of residual faults in PLC logic networks"
Bishop, P.G, ISSRE 2003, Fast Abstracts,
Supplementary Proceedings, pp. 297-298, 17-20 November,
Denver, Colorado, USA, 2003
"Learning from incidents involving
E/E/PE systems, Part 1: Review of methods and industry
practice"
"Learning from incidents involving
E/E/PE systems, Part 2: Recommended scheme"
"Learning from incidents involving
E/E/PE systems, Part 3: Guidance examples and rationale"
"Worst Case Reliability Prediction
Based on a Prior Estimate of Residual Defects"
Bishop, P.G., Bloomfield, R.E., Thirteenth
International Symposium on Software Reliability
Engineering (ISSRE '02), November 12-15, Annapolis,
Maryland, USA, 2002
"Software Criticality Analysis of
COTS/SOUP"
Bishop, P.G., Bloomfield, R.E., Clement,T.P.,
Guerra, A.S.L., SAFECOMP 2002, 10-13 September Catania,
Italy, 2002
"Estimating Residual Faults from Code
Coverage"
Bishop, P.G., SAFECOMP 2002, 10-13
September, Catania, Italy, 2002
"Rescaling Reliability Bounds for a New
Operational Profile, International Symposium on Software
Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2002)"
Bishop, P.G., Rome, Italy, July 22-24, 2001
"Justifying the use of software of
uncertain pedigree (SOUP) in safety related
applications"
Bishop, P.G. Bloomfield, 5th International
Symposium: Programmable Electronic Systems in Safety
Related Applications, Cologne, 7th to 8th May 2002
"Safety Cases and Safety Management
Systems in the Regulation of Air Traffic Management"
J Penny, A. Eaton, P. Bishop and R.
Bloomfield, Safety Critical Systems Symposium '01, Jan
2001
"A Methodology for Safety Case
Development"
P G Bishop and R E Bloomfield,
Safety-critical Systems Symposium, Birmingham, UK, Feb
1998
"Using Reversible Computing to Achieve
Fail-safety"
P G Bishop, ISSRE 97, Nov 1997, Alberquerque,
New Mexico, USA
"A Conservative Theory for Long-Term
Reliability Growth Prediction"
P.G. Bishop and R.E. Bloomfield, IEEE Trans.
Reliability, Vol 45, No 4, December 1996
"A Conservative Theory for Long-Term
Reliability Growth Prediction"
P.G. Bishop and R.E. Bloomfield, ISSRE 96,
White Plains, NY, USA, Oct 1996
"Software Fault Tolerance by Design
Diversity, in Software Fault Tolerance (ed. M. Lyu)"
P.G. Bishop, Wiley, USA, 1995
"The SHIP Safety Case - A Combination
of System and Software Methods"
P.G. Bishop and R.E. Bloomfield, SRSS 95,
Proc. 14th IFAC Conf. on Safety and Reliability of
Software-based Systems, Brugge, Belgium, 12-15 September
1995.
"The SHIP Safety Case, SafeComp 95,
Proc. 14th IFAC Conf. on Computer Safety, Reliability
and Security (ed. G. Rabe)"
P.G. Bishop and R.E. Bloomfield, Belgirate,
Italy, 11-13 October 1995, Springer, ISBN 3-540-19962-4.
"The Variation of Software Survival
Times for Different Operational Input Profiles"
Bishop, P.G., FTCS-23, Toulouse, June 22-24,
1993, IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-8186-3680-7
"Stepwise Development and Verification
of a Boiler System Specification, International Workshop
on the Design and Review of Software Controlled
Safety-related Systems,"
Bishop, P.G., Bruns, G., Anderson S.O.,
National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada, June 28-29,
1993.
"Software Diversity: Way to enhance
Safety?"
Dahll, G., Barnes M., Bishop, P.G.,
Information and Software Technology, Vol. 32, no 10, ,
1991.
"A Random Walk through Software
Reliability Theory"
Bishop P.G, Pullen F.D, Paper in:
Mathematical Structures for Software Engineering,
Clarendon Press, Oxford, ISBN 0-19-853627-5, 1991.
"Dependability of Critical Computer
Applications -- 3: Techniques Directory"
Bishop P.G. (ed), Elsevier Applied Science,
ISBN 1-85166-544-7, 1990.
"Failure Masking - A Source of
Dependency in Multi-Version Programming"
Bishop P.G., Pullen F.D., Int. Working
Conference on Dependable Computing Applications, Santa
Barbara, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press, August 1989.
"Chapter on Safety Critical Software"
(Contributer), in STARTS Purchasers Handbook
NCC Publications, ISBN 0 85012 799 8, 1989.
"PODS Revisited - A Study of Software
Failure Behaviour"
Bishop P.G., Pullen F.D., Eighteenth Fault
Tolerant Computing Symposium (FTCS-18), Tokyo, June
1988, IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-8186-0867-6.
"Probabilistic Modelling of Software
Failure Characteristics"
Bishop P.G., Pullen F.D, SAFECOMP 88,
November 1988, Fulda, Germany, Pergamon Press, ISBN
0-08-036389-X.
"STEM: a Project on Software Test and
Evaluation Methods"
Bishop P.G. et al, Safety and Reliability
Society Symposium 1987 (SARS 87), Altrincham,
Manchester, Elsevier Applied Science, ISBN
1-85166-167-0, 1987.
"The PODS Diversity Experiment,
Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerant Systems, Vol. 2,
(ed. U. Voges)"
Bishop P.G., pringer Verlag, ISBN
0-387-82014, New York-Wien. 1987
"PODS a Project on Diverse Software"
Bishop P.G., et al, IEEE Trans. Software
Engineering, Vol. SE-12, No. 9, 929-940.
"MC/DC based estimation and detection
of residual faults in PLC logic networks"
Bishop, P.G, ISSRE 2003, Fast Abstracts,
Supplementary Proceedings, pp. 297-298, 17-20 November,
Denver, Colorado, USA, 2003
"Co-ordinated Substation Control and
Monitoring"
Bishop P.G., Pullen F.D., 1986, CIGRE 86
Conference, Paris, August 1986.
"The PODS Diversity Experiment IFIP
Workshop on Design Diversity"
Bishop P.G., 1986, Baden-Wien, June 1986
"Techniques for Verification and
Validation of Safety-related Software."
(Contributor) European Workshop on
Industrial Computing Systems - Technical Committee 7,
Position Paper No. 5, 1985.
"Project on Diverse Software"
P.G. Bishop, et al, IFAC Safecomp 85, Como,
Oct 1985
"Guideline on Documentation of Safety
Related Computer Systems"
(Contributor) European Workshop on
Industrial Computing Systems - Technical Committee 7,
Position Paper No. 4, 1984.
"Guideline on the Verification and
Validation of Safety-related Software"
(Contributor) European Workshop on
Industrial Computing Systems - Technical Committee 7,
Position Paper No. 3, 1983.
"Fault Detection and Recovery
Techniques in CUTLASS"
P.G. Bishop, SAFECOMP 83, Cambridge
University, Sept 1983.
"Guideline on the Development of
Safety-related Software European Workshop on Industrial
Computing Systems."
(Contributor) Technical Committee 7,
Position Paper No. 2, 1981
"Distributed Data Handling in a CUTLASS
Network."
P.G. Bishop, IEE Colloquium on Distributed
Systems, May 1980.