Research Challenges in High Confidence Systems
Acronyms
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Acronyms


Acronyms

AMA American Medical Association

AMIA American Medical Association

AOL America On Line

CCIC Committee on Communications, Information, and Communications

CHIM Consortium of Hospital Informatics Manufacturers

CMU Carnegie Mellon University

DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DISA Defense Information Systems Agency

DNS Domain Name Service

FAA Federal Aviation Administration

FDA Federal Drug Administration

FHA Federal Highway Administration

FRA Federal Railroad Administration

GPS Global Positioning System

HCI human-computer interface

HCS High Confidence Systems

HOL high order language

HPC High Performance Computing [program]

IC Intelligence Community

I&C [digital] instrumentation and control

IDA Institute for Defense Analyses

I/O input/output

IPT integrated product team

IRS Internal Revenue Service

ITRMA Information Technology Management Reform Act [1996]

LF line-feed

LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

JVM Java Virtual Machine

ML machine language

MLS multi-level security

MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging

MTBHE mean time between hazardous events

MTTF mean time to failure

MTTR mean time to repair

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NGI Next Generation Internet

NIH National Institutes of Health

NRL Naval Research Laboratory

NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission; National Research Councils

NSA National Security Agency

OSF Open Software Foundation

PCC Proof-Carrying Code

PGP Pretty Good Privacy

R&D research and development

RMSL Requirements Modeling and Specification Language

SCR [David Parnas method of requirements analyis]

TCB Trusted Computing Base

TTA Time-Triggered Architecture

U.S. United States

V&V verification and validation

VHDL Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Hardware Design Language

WAM World-Wide Military Command and Control System (WMCCS) Automation Program

WWMCCS World-Wide Military Command and Control System

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