Detecting Software Aging in safety-critical infrastuctures

In this paper we investigate the application of Software Aging and Rejuvenation in the context of Critical Infrastructures and Systems-of-Systems. Explained are the characteristics of Systems-of-Systems and classes of Critical Systems, attributes which define their dependability as a high priority requirement. In addition we survey Software Aging and Rejuvenation establishing founding research and recent research in this field. The work presented is on-going, however that discusses the challenges pertinent in the field of critical infrastructures, how we intend to investigate and propose new methods for applying context-sensitive fault-forecasting in a variety of complex systems that are associated with both domains and why context is so important.