Upcoming Open Mic - Introduction to STPA Onto Converters
The next Open mic session starts on Friday 25th April 2025 at 9:30 at this link. Bogdan Kostov will present the STPA Onto Converters project which allows to convert STPA analysis artifacts in various formats (e.g. excel, relation DB) to STPA ontology.
Abstract
Systems Approach to Process Hazard Analysis (STPA) [1,2] is a modern, top-down, general hazard analysis method. It focuses on examining loss scenarios initiated or not avoided by the performance of control actions or lack there of. Typically in a practical environment after conducting an STPA analysis, the output will be further used in various different ways, e.g. create an analysis report for the management team, combined the output with outputs from other analysis. To ensure interoperability between tools which allow the export of STPA artifacts in various structured formats there must be: 1) a common format 2) a tool to convert between different STPA formats to the common format.
This open mic session will present the STPA Onto Converters project [3] which aims to ensure interoperability between tools producing and consuming STPA artifacts. The project implements a set of automated converters which transform between various STPA formats and the STPA ontology which acts as the common format.
Outline 1) introduction STPA and the STPA ontology 2) STPA Onto Converters project and implemented converters 3) Live demo 4) Future work
Further reading:
- [1] STPA handbook. Leveson, Nancy G. & Thomas, J. P. MIT Partnership for Systems * Approaches to Safety and Security (PSASS), Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., 2018.
- [2] STAMP Materials, online, accessed 4.2025
- [3] STPA Onto Converters, online , accessed 4.2025