Reasoning with failures

Hamid Jahanian; Annabelle McIver

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-63406-3_3

Reasoning with failures

Hamid Jahanian^*, Annabelle McIver

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Computing

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution

Abstract

Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) protect major hazard facilities, e.g. power plants, against catastrophic accidents. An SIS consists of hardware components and a controller software – the “program”. Current safety analyses of SIS’ include the construction of a fault tree, summarising potential faults of the components and how they can arise within an SIS. The exercise of identifying faults typically relies on the experience of the safety engineer. Unfortunately the program part is often too complicated to be analysed in such a “by hand” manner and so the impact it has on the resulting safety analysis is not accurately captured. In this paper we demonstrate how a formal model for faults and failure modes can be used to analyse the impact of an SIS program. We outline the underlying concepts of Failure Mode Reasoning and its application in safety analysis, and we illustrate the ideas on a practical example.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Formal Methods and Software Engineering
Subtitle of host publication	22nd International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2020 Singapore, Singapore, March 1–3, 2021, Proceedings
Editors	Shang-Wei Lin, Zhe Hou, Brendan Mahoney
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Springer, Springer Nature
Pages	36-52
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030634063
ISBN (Print)	9783030634056
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63406-3_3
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	22nd International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2020 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 1 Mar 2021 → 3 Mar 2021

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	12531 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	22nd International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2020
Country	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	1/03/21 → 3/03/21

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Jahanian, H., & McIver, A. (2020). Reasoning with failures. In S-W. Lin, Z. Hou, & B. Mahoney (Eds.), Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 22nd International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2020 Singapore, Singapore, March 1–3, 2021, Proceedings (pp. 36-52). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12531 LNCS). Cham, Switzerland: Springer, Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63406-3_3

Jahanian, Hamid ; McIver, Annabelle. / Reasoning with failures. Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 22nd International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2020 Singapore, Singapore, March 1–3, 2021, Proceedings. editor / Shang-Wei Lin ; Zhe Hou ; Brendan Mahoney. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, Springer Nature, 2020. pp. 36-52 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Jahanian, H & McIver, A 2020, Reasoning with failures. in S-W Lin, Z Hou & B Mahoney (eds), Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 22nd International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2020 Singapore, Singapore, March 1–3, 2021, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 12531 LNCS, Springer, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 36-52, 22nd International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2020, Singapore, Singapore, 1/03/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63406-3_3

Reasoning with failures. / Jahanian, Hamid ; McIver, Annabelle.

Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 22nd International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2020 Singapore, Singapore, March 1–3, 2021, Proceedings. ed. / Shang-Wei Lin; Zhe Hou; Brendan Mahoney. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, Springer Nature, 2020. p. 36-52 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12531 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution

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Jahanian H , McIver A. Reasoning with failures. In Lin S-W, Hou Z, Mahoney B, editors, Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 22nd International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2020 Singapore, Singapore, March 1–3, 2021, Proceedings. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, Springer Nature. 2020. p. 36-52. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63406-3_3