Reliability Analysis of Systems with Dynamic Dependencies

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Abstract

In this chapter, we present an approach where the reliability analysis of systems showing dynamic dependencies is tackled by means of a model based on the formalism of Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBN). In particular, we aim at modeling the kind of dependencies usually addressed by the Dynamic Fault Tree (DFT) formalism, by providing more sophisticated analysis techniques with respect to DFT. In fact, we show that, by resorting to the use of DBNs, a lot of interesting reliability analyses can be performed on the modeled systems, including prediction of faults (i.e. standard “top event” unreliability analysis), monitoring and diagnosis (explaining observations on some parameters in terms of normal/abnormal behavior of components) and smoothing (reconstruction of components' behavior during time, given a stream of observations). Performing such analyses just requires the use of standard inference techniques on DBNs, making them really interesting for a complex reliability analysis of such systems. We illustrate our approach by means of an example taken from the literature, by providing several diagnostic or predictive measures that can be computed by exploiting a DBN model. This is achieved through the use of RADYBAN, a software tool we have developed, able to translate a DFT model into a DBN and nally to perform the required analysis.
Lingua originaleInglese
Titolo della pubblicazione ospiteBayesian Belief Networks: A Practical Guide to Applications
EditoreJhon Wiley & Sons Ltd
Pagine225-238
Numero di pagine14
ISBN (stampa)9780470060308
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 1 gen 2008

Keywords

  • Dynamic Bayesian Networks
  • Reliability

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