Towards an Interactive Fault Tree Analyser
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چکیده
Currently available fault tree analysis techniques are not powerful enough to allow engineers to fully exploit these trees. Large fault trees require hours of CPU time on mainframe computers to be analysed, and this analysis provides designers only with approximate qualitative and quantitative informations. This paper presents data structures and algorithms that support the interactive exact analysis of very large coherent and noncoherent fault trees. The prototype tool METAPRIME that implements this method offers modeling engineers the possibility of analysing with an uncomparable finesse fault trees with billions of prime implicants.
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