Title :
An Analysis to Understand Software Trustworthiness
Author :
Tan, Thomas ; He, Mei ; Yang, Ye ; Wang, Qing ; Li, Mingshu
Author_Institution :
Center for Syst. & Software Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Abstract :
With the increasing demand of software capabilities in both business and government operations, building trustworthy software become critical for the success of the organization. However, the growth of Internet throws different kinds of malicious and/or unintentional threats into the mix by providing endless points of attacks that threatens the dependency of software running on the network for distributed applications. In this paper, we´d like to discuss our effort to understand some of the key areas related to software trustworthiness.
Keywords :
safety-critical software; Internet threat; business operation; distributed application; government operation; network attack; software trustworthiness analysis; Application software; Cognition; Computer security; IP networks; National security; Particle measurements; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software safety; Usability; software trustworthiness; software trustworthiness definition;
Conference_Titel :
Young Computer Scientists, 2008. ICYCS 2008. The 9th International Conference for
Conference_Location :
Hunan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3398-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3398-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICYCS.2008.484