Risk analysis

Risk analysis

The systematic use of available information to identify hazards and to estimate the risk to individuals or populations, property or the environment.

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Industry/Domain: Computer; Software
Category: Software engineering
Organization: IEEE Computer Society
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An analysis of the possibility of suffering loss.

risk analysis

Business services; Project management

An examination of risk areas or events to assess the probable consequences for each event (or combination of events in the analysis), and determine possible options for avoidance.

risk analysis

Computer; Software; Software engineering

The systematic use of available information to identify hazards and to estimate the risk to individuals or populations, property or the environment.

risk analysis

Telecommunications; General telecom

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A procedure to identify and quantify risks by establishing potential failure modes, providing numerical estimates of the likelihood of an event in a specified time period, and ...

risk analysis

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Assessment of the total risk due to all possible environmental inputs and all possible mechanisms.

requirements derivation

Computer; Software; Software engineering

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detailed design phase

Computer; Software; Software engineering

The software development lifecycle phase during which the detailed design process takes place, using the software system design and software architecture from the previous phase ...

risk factor

Computer; Software; Software engineering

A potential problem that would be detrimental to a planned activity, project, or program, characterized by the probability of problem occurrence (0 _ p _ 1) and a potential loss ...

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A form of decision analysis that balances competing components to achieve the best performance. Software’s classic space-time trade-off is an example of optimization; an algorithm ...

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detailed design description

Computer; Software; Software engineering

A document that describes the exact detailed configuration of a computer program. It identifies the input, output, control logic, algorithms, and data structure of each individual ...

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