Improving the analysis of dependable systems by mapping fault trees into Bayesian networks

By Andrea Bobbio, Luigi Portinale, M. Minichino, E. Ciancamerla. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2001

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Statistics and Probability

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Dynamic fault tree analysis using Monte Carlo simulation in probabilistic safety assessment (2009, methodology): “The analysis is carried out in two steps: a qualitative step in which the logical expression of the top event is derived in terms of prime implicants (the minimal cut-sets); a quantitative step in which on the basis of the probabilities assigned to the failure events of the basic components, the…”
Overview on Bayesian networks applications for dependability, risk analysis and maintenance areas (2012, background): “Castillo et al. (1997), Portinale & Bobbio (1999) Bobbio et al. (2001), Bobbio et al., (2003) and Mahadevan et al ., (2001) present a relevant contribution in which they explain how FT can be translated to BN, maintaining its Boolean behavior.”
Bayesian Networks in Fault Diagnosis (2017, methodology): “Diagnosis is conducted by backward analysis with various algorithms [37].”
Application of Bayesian Networks in Reliability Evaluation (2019, methodology): “[1] proposed a mapping algorithm from a fault tree to BNs and evaluated the reliability of a redundant multiprocessor system.”
A discrete-time Bayesian network reliability modeling and analysis framework (2005, methodology): “[6], the authors provide a mapping between static (and, or, k/m gates) FTs and BNs and show how inference in the latter can be used to obtain the top gate failure probability of the FT.”
Bayesian Networks in Reliability: Some Recent Developments (2004, background): “…found applications in, e.g., software reliability (Fenton et al. 1998; Gran 2002), fault ﬁnding systems (Heckerman et al. 1995; Jensen et al. 2001), maintenance modelling (Langseth and Lindqvist 2003), and general reliability modelling (Bobbio et al. 2001; Langseth 2002; Ingleby and West 2003).”
An overview of fault tree analysis and its application in model based dependability analysis (2017, methodology): “However, methodologies like Bobbio, Portinale, Minichino, & Ciancamerla (2001) can quantify fault trees with statistically dependent events.”
Applications of Bayesian networks and Petri nets in safety, reliability, and risk assessments: A review (2019, positive): “The pioneering work on system reliability analysis by translating FTs into BNs was performed by Bobbio et al. (2001).”
A Bayesian Belief Network modelling of organisational factors in risk analysis: A case study in maritime transportation (2008, background): “This approach allows a better analysis of a dependable system [28] as a result of additional capabilities of the BBN respect to the FTA (e.”