PFL: a Probabilistic Logic for Fault Trees

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Main Authors: Nicoletti, Stefano M., Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg, Milan, Hahn, E. Moritz, Stoelinga, Mariëlle
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Published: 2023
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author Nicoletti, Stefano M.
Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg, Milan
Hahn, E. Moritz
Stoelinga, Mariëlle
author_facet Nicoletti, Stefano M.
Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg, Milan
Hahn, E. Moritz
Stoelinga, Mariëlle
contents Safety-critical infrastructures must operate in a safe and reliable way. Fault tree analysis is a widespread method used for risk assessment of these systems: fault trees (FTs) are required by, e.g., the Federal Aviation Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In spite of their popularity, little work has been done on formulating structural queries about FT and analyzing these, e.g., when evaluating potential scenarios, and to give practitioners instruments to formulate queries on FTs in an understandable yet powerful way. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by extending BFL [32], a logic that reasons about Boolean FTs. To do so, we introduce a Probabilistic Fault tree Logic (PFL). PFL is a simple, yet expressive logic that supports easier formulation of complex scenarios and specification of FT properties that comprise probabilities. Alongside PFL, we present LangPFL, a domain specific language to further ease property specification. We showcase PFL and LangPFL by applying them to a COVID-19 related FT and to a FT for an oil/gas pipeline. Finally, we present theory and model checking algorithms based on binary decision diagrams (BDDs).
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spellingShingle PFL: a Probabilistic Logic for Fault Trees
Nicoletti, Stefano M.
Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg, Milan
Hahn, E. Moritz
Stoelinga, Mariëlle
Logic in Computer Science
Safety-critical infrastructures must operate in a safe and reliable way. Fault tree analysis is a widespread method used for risk assessment of these systems: fault trees (FTs) are required by, e.g., the Federal Aviation Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In spite of their popularity, little work has been done on formulating structural queries about FT and analyzing these, e.g., when evaluating potential scenarios, and to give practitioners instruments to formulate queries on FTs in an understandable yet powerful way. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by extending BFL [32], a logic that reasons about Boolean FTs. To do so, we introduce a Probabilistic Fault tree Logic (PFL). PFL is a simple, yet expressive logic that supports easier formulation of complex scenarios and specification of FT properties that comprise probabilities. Alongside PFL, we present LangPFL, a domain specific language to further ease property specification. We showcase PFL and LangPFL by applying them to a COVID-19 related FT and to a FT for an oil/gas pipeline. Finally, we present theory and model checking algorithms based on binary decision diagrams (BDDs).
title PFL: a Probabilistic Logic for Fault Trees
topic Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17314