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Using Statistical Model Checking to Assess Reliability for Bathtub-Shaped Failure Rates
reliability, assessment, reliability model, fault, failure, stochastic automaton,
timed automaton, simulation, statistical model checking
Ideally, the reliability can be assessed analytically, provided that an
analytical solution exists and its presumptions are met. Otherwise, alternative
approaches to the assessment must apply. This paper proposes a novel, simulation
based approach that relies on stochastic timed automata. Based on the automata,
our paper explains principles of creating reliability models for various
scenarios. Our approach expects that a reliability model is then processed by
a statistical model checking method, used to assess the reliability by
statistical processing of simulation results over the model. Main goal of this
paper is to show that instruments of stochastic timed automata and statistical
model checking are capable of facilitating the assessment process even for
adverse conditions such as bathtub shaped hazard failure rates.
@inproceedings{BUT156842,
author="Josef {Strnadel}",
title="Using Statistical Model Checking to Assess Reliability for Bathtub-Shaped Failure Rates",
booktitle="Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE)",
year="2019",
pages="614--617",
publisher="IEEE Computer Society",
address="Florence",
doi="10.23919/DATE.2019.8714878",
isbn="978-3-9819263-2-3",
url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8714878"
}