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Dr John May
Reader in Safety Systems
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Dr John May
BSc, PhD(Bristol)
Reader in Safety Systems
Area of research
Safety Systems
Office 1.36
Queen's Building,
University Walk,
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BS8 1TR
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 331 5745
j.may@bristol.ac.uk
Research summary
John May is Director of a research group in the Safety Systems Research Centre. The SSRC studies failure in a new breed of highly complex systems built by man. Existing scientific and engineering techniques have been unable to describe or control these phenomena.
For example, it was previously thought to be the case that non-trivial software systems were untestable, in the sense that testing could not provide meaningful quantitative assurance of software function. We have demonstrated that this not the case for a significant class of software, and have applied new statistical reliability testing techniques to critical nuclear systems, including ...
Recent publications
- Askoxylakis, I, Tryfonas, T, May, J, Siris, V & Traganitis, A 2011, ‘A Family of Key Agreement Mechanisms for Mission Critical Communications for Secure Mobile Ad Hoc and Wireless Mesh Internetworking’. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol 2011., pp. 1-17
- Peters, A, Ross-Martin, T, May, J & Achim, A 2011, ‘Design of a Vehicle-to-Vehicle Collision Avoidance System for a Personal Rapid Transit Application’. in: IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES’11), Beijing, China.
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