A new perspective on the dependability of software systems / Graham Button -- Trust and organisational work / Karen Clarke [and others] -- When a bed is not a bed : calculation and calculability in complex organisational settings / Karen Clarke [and others] -- Enterprise modeling based on responsibility / John Dobson and David Martin -- Standardization, trust and dependability / Gillian Hardstone, Luciana d'Adderio and Robin Williams -- 'Its about time' : temporal features of dependability / Karen Clarke [and others] -- Explicating failure / Karen Clarke [and others] -- Patterns for dependable design / David Martin, Mark Rouncefield and Ian Sommerville -- Dependability and trust in organisational and domestic computer systems / Ian Sommerville [and others] --Understanding and supporting dependability as ordinary action / Alexander Voss [and others] -- The DIRC project as the context of this book / Cliff B. Jones
Summary
Encapsulates work done in the DIRC project (Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Dependability), bringing together a range of disciplinary approaches - computer science, sociology and software engineering - to produce a socio-technical systems perspective on the issues surrounding trust in technology in complex settings
