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Distributed databases, as the core infrastructure software for internet applications, play a critical role in modern cloud services. However, existing distributed databases frequently experience system failures and performance degradation,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Lingzhe Zhang , Tong Jia , Mengxi Jia , Ying Li

Can we infer all the failed components of an infrastructure network, given a sample of reachable nodes from supply nodes? One of the most critical post-disruption processes after a natural disaster is to quickly determine the damage or…

Causal inference provides an analytical framework to identify and quantify cause-and-effect relationships among a network of interacting agents. This paper offers a novel framework for analyzing cascading failures in power transmission…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Shiuli Subhra Ghosh , Anmol Dwivedi , Ali Tajer , Kyongmin Yeo , Wesley M. Gifford

Blackouts in power grids typically result from cascading failures. The key importance of the electric power grid to society encourages further research into sustaining power system reliability and developing new methods to manage the risks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-02-18 Yakup Koç , Trivik Verma , Nuno A. M. Araujo , Martijn Warnier

Fault Tree analysis is a widely used failure analysis methodology to assess a system in terms of safety or reliability in many industrial application domains. However, with Fault Tree methodology there is no possibility to express a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Marc Zeller , Francesco Montrone

Alarm root cause analysis is a significant component in the day-to-day telecommunication network maintenance, and it is critical for efficient and accurate fault localization and failure recovery. In practice, accurate and self-adjustable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Keli Zhang , Marcus Kalander , Min Zhou , Xi Zhang , Junjian Ye

Debugging formal verification (FV) failures represents one of the most time-consuming bottlenecks in modern hardware design workflows. When properties fail, engineers must manually trace through complex counter-examples spanning multiple…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yunsheng Bai , Ghaith Bany Hamad , Chia-Tung Ho , Syed Suhaib , Haoxing Ren

A networked system can fail when most of its components are unable to support flux through the nodes and edges. As studied earlier this scenario can be triggered by an external perturbation such as an intentional attack on nodes or for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-15 Shaunak Roy , Vimal Kishore , M. S. Santhanam

Abductive reasoning, reasoning for inferring explanations for observations, is often mentioned in scientific, design-related and artistic contexts, but its understanding varies across these domains. This paper reviews how abductive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Abhinav Sood , Kazjon Grace , Stephen Wan , Cecile Paris

Root-cause analysis in controlled time dependent systems poses a major challenge in applications. Especially energy systems are difficult to handle as they exhibit instantaneous as well as delayed effects and if equipped with storage, do…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-05 Philipp Alexander Schwarz , Johannes Oberpriller , Sven Klaassen

Deductive and abductive reasoning are two critical paradigms for analyzing knowledge graphs, enabling applications from financial query answering to scientific discovery. Deductive reasoning on knowledge graphs usually involves retrieving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yisen Gao , Jiaxin Bai , Yi Huang , Xingcheng Fu , Qingyun Sun , Yangqiu Song

This paper addresses how to improve the computational efficiency and estimation reliability in cascading outage analysis. We first formulate a cascading outage as a Markov chain with specific state space and transition probability by…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Jinpeng Guo , Feng Liu , Jianhui Wang , Junhao Lin , Shengwei Mei

Modern distributed cyber-physical systems encounter a large variety of anomalies and in many cases, they are vulnerable to catastrophic fault propagation scenarios due to strong connectivity among the sub-systems. In this regard, root-cause…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Chao Liu , Kin Gwn Lore , Soumik Sarkar

Detecting failures and identifying their root causes promptly and accurately is crucial for ensuring the availability of microservice systems. A typical failure troubleshooting pipeline for microservices consists of two phases: anomaly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Luan Pham , Huong Ha , Hongyu Zhang

Failure attribution in multi-agent systems -- pinpointing the exact step where a decisive error occurs -- is a critical yet unsolved challenge. Current methods treat this as a pattern recognition task over long conversation logs, leading to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Alva West , Yixuan Weng , Minjun Zhu , Zhen Lin , Zhiyuan Ning , Yue Zhang

Regardless of its foundational role in human discovery and sense-making, abductive reasoning--the inference of the most plausible explanation for an observation--has been relatively underexplored in Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Moein Salimi , Shaygan Adim , Danial Parnian , Nima Alighardashi , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Detecting performance issues and identifying their root causes in the runtime is a challenging task. Typically, developers use methods such as logging and tracing to identify bottlenecks. These solutions are, however, not ideal as they are…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Sneh Patel , Brendan Park , Naser Ezzati-Jivan , Quentin Fournier

We propose an abductive diagnosis theory that integrates probabilistic, causal and taxonomic knowledge. Probabilistic knowledge allows us to select the most likely explanation; causal knowledge allows us to make reasonable independence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-05 Dekang Lin , Randy Goebel

Root cause analysis (RCA) is essential for diagnosing failures within complex software systems to ensure system reliability. The highly distributed and interdependent nature of modern cloud-based systems often complicates RCA efforts,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Evelien Riddell , James Riddell , Gengyi Sun , Michał Antkiewicz , Krzysztof Czarnecki

Network motifs are often called the building blocks of networks. Analysis of motifs is found to be an indispensable tool for understanding local network structure, in contrast to measures based on node degree distribution and its functions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-23 Asim Kumer Dey , Yulia R. Gel , H. Vincent Poor