Published: 2015-09-18
ISBN: 978-91-7685-955-1
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
This paper describes, exemplifies and substantiates a method for detection of the minimal path set of any fault-tolerant technical system that is represented as a multi-domain object-oriented model. Thus, the method automatically performs a safety or reliability analysis of the system.
safety analysis; reliability analysis; minimal path set; graph algorithms; modelling of failures; failure probability
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