Defining and Retrieving Themes in Nuclear Regulations

Nicolas Sannier (1, 2) , Benoit Baudry (1)

1 TRISKELL - Reliable and efficient component based software engineering
2 EDF R&D STEP - Simulation et Traitement de l'information pour l'Exploitation des systèmes de Production

Safety systems in nuclear industry must conform to an increasing set of regulatory requirements. These requirements are scattered throughout multiple documents expressing different levels of requirements or different kinds of requirements. Consequently, when licensees want to extract the set of regulations related to a specific concern, they lack explicit traces between all regulation documents and mostly get lost while attempting to compare two different regulatory corpora. This paper presents the regulatory landscape in the context of digital Instrumentation and Command systems in nuclear power plants. To cope with this complexity, we define and discuss challenges toward an approach based on information retrieval techniques to first narrow the regulatory research space into themes and then assist the recovery of these traceability links.

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Nicolas Sannier, Benoit Baudry. Defining and Retrieving Themes in Nuclear Regulations. Fifth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law (RELAW 2012), Sep 2012, Chicago, United States. ⟨hal-00721826⟩