Proposal for a Special Issue for Journal of System Safety on Safety by Design

The rising complexity of tightly coupled systems makes them more and more prone to risk and accidents. Integration between complex systems and their subsequent interactions can lead to significant risks, unintended behavior and unexpected consequences. The emergence of big data can help make safer systems — provided proper data analytics and automation is used. Elicitation of information from big data, and the fusion of precise and uncertain data, remains a challenge for researchers progressively demanding increasing processing powers. While system designers need