Julieth Patricia Castellanos Ardila, Associated Senior Lecturer

Julieth Castellanos is an associated senior lecturer and researcher in systems of systems safety. In particular, Julieth researches analysis techniques, strategies, and processes that make it possible to provide safety by design to safety- and mission-critical systems and infrastructures.  

Julieth was a doctoral student at the Division of Software Engineering at Mälardalen University under the supervision of Barbara Gallina and Faiz Ul Muram. Julieth presented her licentiate thesis called "Facilitating Automated Compliance Checking of Processes against Safety Standards" in March 2019. She also defended her doctoral dissertation called "A Safety-centered Planning-time Framework for Automated Process Compliance Checking" in September 2021. In addition, Julieth has a specialization in Software Engineering from Universidad Distrital Franciso José de Caldas in Bogotá (Colombia), a one-year Master in Computer Science from Malmö University, and a two-year Master in Software Engineering from Mälardalen University. She received her bachelor's degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) in Bucaramanga, Colombia. 

Julieth is also interested in studying industry standards, the interplay between different concerns tacked by the regulatory perspective (e.g., safety, security, cybersecurity, risk management, process improvement, and quality), and compliance management (i.e., strategies for managing -creation and reuse- normative and compliance artifacts from both the process and the product perspective.  

Preliminary work contributed to the AMASS project, an EU-ECSEL funded project whose ultimate goal is to lower certification costs for Cyber-Physical Systems.

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Latest publications:

Experience using Systematic Mapping Studies to Foster Knowledge Discovery in Emerging Technology Fields (Apr 2025)
Julieth Patricia Castellanos Ardila
17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU)

Towards an Integrated Safety-Security Ontology for System of Systems (Oct 2024)
Nazakat Ali, Julieth Patricia Castellanos Ardila, Sasikumar Punnekkat
2024 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE 2024)

Safety Argumentation for Machinery Assembly Control Software (Sep 2024)
Julieth Patricia Castellanos Ardila, Sasikumar Punnekkat, Hans Hansson, Peter Backeman
43rd International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP 2024)

A Proposal for Enhancing IEC 61508 Methodology for the β-Factor Estimation (Sep 2024)
Sirisha Bai Govardhan Rao, Julieth Patricia Castellanos Ardila, Sasikumar Punnekkat
European Conference on Software Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2024)

A Systematic Review of β-factor Models in the Quantification of Common Cause Failures (Jan 2024)
Sirisha Bai Govardhan Rao, Julieth Patricia Castellanos Ardila, Sasikumar Punnekkat
Euromicro Conference Series on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA2023)

Arguing Operational Safety for Mixed Traffic in Underground Mining (Jun 2023)
Julieth Patricia Castellanos Ardila, Sasikumar Punnekkat, Hans Hansson, Christian Grante
18th Annual System Of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE2023)

PhD students supervised as assistant supervisor:

Sirisha Bai Govardhan Rao