PBL’s Publications of Record since 2017
Note: Many of the references below are to publications of the Safety Critical Systems Club (SCSC) in the UK. One can download two items a month from the SCSC WWWW site at no cost — see Footnote *. Another way to get a copy at no cost is simply to ask me for one.
(with Christian Raspotnig, Fabio Massacci, Johannes de Haan and Pierantonia Sterlini) The Risk of Relying on a Public Communications Infrastructure, in Engineering Safe Autonomy, Proceedings of the Twenty-seventh Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK, 2019, available from https://scsc.uk/publications/resources
Duty of care and engineering functional-safety standards, Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review 16, 2019 https://journals.sas.ac.uk/deeslr/article/view/5078 (See Footnote ** for further information about DEESLR.)
IEC TR 63069, Security Environments and Security-Risk Analysis, in Assuring Safe Autonomy, Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, York, UK, 2020, available from https://scsc.uk/publications/resources
(with Bev Littlewood, Harold Thimbleby and Martyn Thomas) The Law Commission presumption concerning the dependability of computer evidence, Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review 17, 2020 https://journals.sas.ac.uk/deeslr/article/view/5143
Robustness of software, Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review 17, 2020 https://journals.sas.ac.uk/deeslr/article/view/5171
Chances, Confidence and Risks Analysis: The Chance of Covid-19 Infection in the Day Care of Very Young Children, in Systems and Covid-19, Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, virtual, 2021, available from https://scsc.uk/publications/resources
A Simple Calculus of Confidence, in Systems and Covid-19, Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, virtual, 2021, available from https://scsc.uk/publications/resources
(with Paul Marshall, James Christie et al.) Recommendations for the probity of computer evidence, Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review 18, 2021 https://journals.sas.ac.uk/deeslr/article/view/5240
The German and Belgian Floods in July 2021, in Safer Systems: The Next Thirty Years, Proceedings of the Thirtieth Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK and virtual, 2022, available from https://scsc.uk/publications/resources
(with Martyn Thomas) Assigning IACS cybersecurity responsibility conformant with the UK Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018, Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review 19, 2022 https://journals.sas.ac.uk/deeslr/article/view/5427
Evaluating Software Execution as a Bernoulli Process, Safety-critical Systems eJournal 1(2), 2022, available at https://scsc.uk/journal/index.php/scsj/article/view/12
(with Nicholas Bohm et al.) Briefing Note: The presumption that computers are reliable in England and Wales is proved to be wrong, Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review 19, 2022 https://journals.sas.ac.uk/deeslr/article/view/5476
(with Lou Xinxin and Dieter Schnäpp) The Terminological Analysis Method SemAn and its Implementation, Safety-critical Systems eJournal 2(1), 2022, available at https://scsc.uk/journal/index.php/scsj/article/view/20
Involving LLMs in legal processes is risky, Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review 20, 2023 https://journals.sas.ac.uk/deeslr/article/view/5610
Some Principles of Conceptual Analysis for Electrotechnical Terminology (ConcAn), Safety-critical Systems eJournal 3(1), 2024, available at https://scsc.uk/journal/index.php/scsj/article/view/22
Functional Safety and Oracular Subsystems, Safety-critical Systems eJournal 3(2), 2024, available at https://scsc.uk/journal/index.php/scsj/article/view/32
(with Stephen Mason and Harold Thimbleby) Misunderstanding Digital Computer Technology in Court, Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review 21, 2024 https://journals.sas.ac.uk/deeslr/article/view/5776
Footnote *: The SCSC is 34 years old and is now a registered Community Interest Company and needs to try to cover its costs. I support its mission, and its practices. Its publications, at scsc.uk —> Publications, are not purely open-access, except for the eJournal. Casual readers can download two publications per month at no charge. A charge of £15 allows unlimited access to all publications for one month. Or one may become a SCSC member and thereby obtain unlimited access.
Footnote **: The Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review is an open-access journal founded by barrister Stephen Mason in 2004 and hosted at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London. It has played a major role in publishing studies of what has come to be known as the Post Office Horizon scandal, starting with the publication in Vol 12 (2015) of the case transcript of the prosecution in England of Ms. Seema Misra, whose conviction was quashed in 2021. Editors are the Australian lawyer Ms. Allison Stanfield and (since June 2025) PBL.