Structured Stochastic Modeling of Fault-Tolerant Systems

Fault-tolerant mechanisms have been increasingly used to develop safety-critical systems in the past years. Therefore the accurate description of these mechanisms is crucial if we want that their use do not bring any kind of unexpected result due to the misinterpretation of their features. This paper presents a new way of precisely describing faulttolerant mechanisms using a formalism that have a Markovian behavior. More specifically, we describe how to apply Stochastic Automata Networks (SAN) to describe a Dependable Multiparty Interaction (DMI) mechanism.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: MASCOTS
• Authors: Cristiano Bertolini, Leonardo Brenner, Paulo Fernandes, Afonso Sales, Avelino F. Zorzo
• Keywords: Dependable Multiparty Interaction, Fault-tolerant Mechanisms, MASCOTS 2004, MASCOTS 2007, Stochastic Automata Networks