Computer Safety, Reliability and Security: 17th International Conference, SAFECOMP'98, Heidelberg Germany, October 5-7, 1998, Proceedings

Computers and their interactions are becoming the characteristic features of our time: Many people believe that the industrial age is going over into the information age. In the same way as life of the beginning of this century was dominated by machines, factories, streets and railways, the starting century will be characterised by computers and their networks. This change naturally affects also the institutions and the installations our lives depend upon: power plants, including nuclear on...