ABOUT ECBS

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Background
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In November 1994, the Technical Committee (TC) on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS) was officially chartered by the Technical Activities Board of the IEEE Computer Society.

The mission of ECBS is to:

	serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas and for the collection and dissemination of knowledge among interested practitioners, researchers, and students;
	facilitate and encourage research in the field;
	establish a framework for ECBS professional and academic education and training; and
	promote the ECBS discipline.

The ECBS TC promotes this emerging discipline through technical meetings, workshops, conferences, publications, and activities of the various working groups established as part of our organization.

WHAT IS ECBS?

Computer-based systems affect virtually everything we do. Typical systems that are computer based include telephone and communications, process control and manufacturing automation, space travel, transportation (automotive, train, aircraft, and air traffic control), command and control, medical instruments, and large or distributed database systems.

Specifically, computer-based systems (CBSs) are those whose behavior is, to a substantial degree, determined or controlled by computers. CBSs tend to be complex, often consisting of many networked, geographically distributed subsystems, and each subsystem may itself be a multicomputer system. A CBS is software, hardware, and frequently communication intensive, and its functional performance, and reliability requirements mandate tightly integrated information processing and physical behavior.