GSN Models of Safety Assurance for the Automotive Industry

Abstract

The technological landscape of the automotive industry is constantly evolving, reinforcing the need for all systems to be safe and reliable for consumers. Assurance case templates can be used by automakers within their system safety process as a clear and consistent method to demonstrate the safety assurance of system level designs. To represent the assurance case templates, within this work we will be utilizing Goal Structuring Notation (GSN), an argumentation notation that enables the creation of conceptual assurance case models.

This work will outline and adhere to a standardized process for modelling an explicit representation of the safety case of an assurance argument as a GSN template using the implicit assurance argument within safety process documentation. Future work will be explored regarding the application of the utilized methods to other work products within the system safety process, as well as emerging methods that can be used to represent assurance case templates.