David Fisher
Software Engineering Institute
Publications by David Fisher
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Principles of Trust for Embedded Systems
March 01, 2012 • Technical Note
David Fisher
In this report, David Fisher provides substance and explicit meaning to the terms trust and trustworthy as they relate to automated systems.
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Results of SEI Independent Research and Development Projects (FY 2010)
February 01, 2011 • Technical Report
William AndersonDavid FisherDavid P. Gluch
This report describes results of independent research and development (IRAD) projects undertaken in fiscal year 2010.
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Trust and Trusted Computing Platforms
January 01, 2011 • Technical Note
David FisherJonathan M. McCuneArchie D. Andrews
This technical note examines the Trusted Platform Module, which arose from work related to the Independent Research and Development project "Trusted Computing in Extreme Adversarial Environments: Using Trusted Hardware as a Foundation for Cyber Security."
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Results of SEI Independent Research and Development Projects (FY 2006)
July 01, 2007 • Technical Report
Christopher J. AlbertsEileen C. ForresterSuzanne Garcia-Miller
This report describes the IRAD projects that were conducted during fiscal year 2006 (October 2005 through September 2006).
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A Proposed Taxonomy for Software Development Risks for High-Performance Computing (HPC) Scientific/Engineering Applications
January 01, 2007 • Technical Note
Richard KendallDouglass Post (DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program)Jeffrey Carver
In this report, the authors classify the sources of software development risk for scientific/engineering applications.
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Conditions for Achieving Network-Centric Operations in Systems of Systems
January 01, 2007 • Technical Note
David FisherB. Craig MeyersPatrick R. Place
This 2007 report lists conditions that must prevail to achieve effective acquisition, development, and use of systems of systems.
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System-of-Systems Navigator: An Approach for Managing System-of-Systems Interoperability
April 01, 2006 • Technical Note
Lisa BrownswordDavid FisherEdwin J. Morris
This technical note introduces the System-of-Systems Navigator (SoS Navigator), the collection and codification of essential practices for building large-scale systems of systems.
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An Emergent Perspective on Interoperation in Systems of Systems
March 01, 2006 • Technical Report
David Fisher
This 2006 report facilitates discussion and reasoning about interoperation within systems of systems by showing some of the interdependencies among systems, emergence, and interoperation.
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Some Current Approaches to Interoperability
August 01, 2005 • Technical Note
David J. CarneyDavid FisherEdwin J. Morris
This 2005 report examines some of the complexities of interoperability and some recent research approaches to achieving it.
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Topics in Interoperability: System-of-Systems Evolution
March 01, 2005 • Technical Note
David J. CarneyDavid FisherPatrick R. Place
This report - the first in a series of reports on interoperability - examines how interoperable systems of systems evolve.
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Current Perspectives on Interoperability
March 01, 2004 • Technical Report
Lisa BrownswordDavid J. CarneyDavid Fisher
This 2004 report describes current research within the software engineering community on the topic of interoperability between software systems.
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Survivable Network Systems: An Emerging Discipline
November 01, 1997 • Technical Report
David FisherRichard C. Linger (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)Howard F. Lipson
This 1997 report describes the survivability approach to helping assure that a system that must operate in an unbounded network is robust in the presence of attack and will survive attacks that result in successful intrusions.
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C4 Software Technology Reference Guide: A Prototype
January 01, 1997 • Handbook
John T. ForemanJon GrossRobert Rosenstein
The 1997 document provides a guide to specific software technologies of interest to those building or maintaining systems, especially those in command, control, and/or communications applications.
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Report to the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
January 01, 1997 • Special Report
James EllisDavid FisherThomas A. Longstaff
This 1997 report identifies threats to and vulnerabilities of the Internet and estimates the cascade effect that a successful, sustained attack on the Internet would have on the critical national infrastructures set out in Executive Order 13010.
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