Departmental Papers (CIS)

Date of this Version

4-2013

Document Type

Conference Paper

Comments

2nd ACM International Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems (HiCoNS). Part of Cyber Physical Systems Week 2013 (CPSWeek 2013), April 9-11, 2013 in Philadelphia, PA.

Abstract

Fault diagnosis in networked systems has been an extensively studied field in systems engineering. Fault diagnosis generally includes the tasks of fault detection and isolation, and optionally recovery (FDIR). In this paper we further consider the blame assignment problem: given a system trace on which a system failure occurred and an identified set of faulty components, determine which subsets of faulty components are the culprits for the system failure.

We provide formal definitions of the notion culprits and the blame assignment problem, under the assumptions that only one system trace is given and the system cannot be rerun. We show that the problem is equivalent to deciding the unsatisfiability of a set of logical constraints on component behaviors, and present the transformation from a blame assignment instance into an instance of unsatisfiability checking. We also apply the approach to a case study in the medical device interoperability scenario that has motivated our work.

Subject Area

CPS Formal Methods

Publication Source

2nd ACM Conference on High Confidence Networked Sytsems (HiCONS)

Start Page

117

Last Page

126

DOI

10.1145/2461446.2461463

Copyright/Permission Statement

© ACM 2013. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on High Confidence Networked Sytsems (HiCONS), http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2461446.2461463.

Keywords

Blame Assignment, Component-based System, Trace Analysis, Fault Diagnosis

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Date Posted: 06 September 2013