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In Nature, the primary goal of any network is to survive. This is less obvious for engineering networks (electric power, gas, water, transportation systems etc.) that are expected to operate under normal conditions most of time. As a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-02 Svetlana V. Poroseva

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is becoming increasingly crucial for ensuring the reliability of microservice systems. However, performing RCA on modern microservice systems can be challenging due to their large scale, as they usually comprise…

This paper presents a novel approach to root cause attribution of delivery risks within supply chains by integrating causal discovery with reinforcement learning. As supply chains become increasingly complex, traditional methods of root…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Minheng Xiao

Recently, there has been a growing concern about the overload status of the power grid networks, and the increasing possibility of cascading failures. Many researchers have studied these networks to provide design guidelines for more robust…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-12-27 Sakshi Pahwa , Caterina Scoglio , Noel Schulz

We use observed transmission line outage data to make a Markov influence graph that describes the probabilities of transitions between generations of cascading line outages, where each generation of a cascade consists of a single line…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-17 Kai Zhou , Ian Dobson , Zhaoyu Wang , Alexander Roitershtein , Arka P. Ghosh

The complex dependencies and propagative faults inherent in microservices, characterized by a dense network of interconnected services, pose significant challenges in identifying the underlying causes of issues. Prompt identification and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Tingting Wang , Guilin Qi

Intrusion detection is only a starting step in securing IT infrastructure. Prediction of intrusions is the next step to provide an active defense against incoming attacks. Current intrusion prediction methods focus mainly on prediction of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Udaya Sampath K. Perera Miriya Thanthrige , Jagath Samarabandu , Xianbin Wang

Performance monitoring, anomaly detection, and root-cause analysis in complex cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are often highly intractable due to widely diverse operational modes, disparate data types, and complex fault propagation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-01 Chao Liu , Kin Gwn Lore , Zhanhong Jiang , Soumik Sarkar

This paper presents a complex systems overview of a power grid network. In recent years, concerns about the robustness of the power grid have grown because of several cascading outages in different parts of the world. In this paper,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-06-24 Sakshi Pahwa , Amelia Hodges , Caterina Scoglio , Sean Wood

Impedance models of power systems are useful when state-space models of apparatus such as inverter-based resources (IBRs) have not been made available and instead only black-box impedance models are available. For tracing the root causes of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Yue Zhu , Yunjie Gu , Yitong Li , Timothy C. Green

Cloud application services are distributed in nature and have components across the stack working together to deliver the experience to end users. The wide adoption of microservice architecture exacerbates failure management due to…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Dhanya R Mathews , Mudit Verma , Pooja Aggarwal , J. Lakshmi

Fault identification and testing has always been the most specific concern in the field of software development. To identify and testify the bug we should be aware of the source of the failure or any unwanted issue. In this paper, we are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Vishal Anand , Ramani S

Due to the evolving nature of power systems and the complicated coupling relationship of power devices, it has been a great challenge to identify the contingencies that could trigger cascading blackouts of power systems. This paper provides…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Chao Zhai , Hehong Zhang , Gaoxi Xiao , Tso-Chien Pan

In this paper, we define a new measure of the redundancy of information from a fault tolerance perspective. The partial information decomposition (PID) emerged last decade as a framework for decomposing the multi-source mutual information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Jesse Milzman

Communications networks now form the backbone of our digital world, with fast and reliable connectivity. However, even with appropriate redundancy and failover mechanisms, it is difficult to guarantee "five 9s" (99.999 %) reliability,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Nguyen Phuc Tran , Brigitte Jaumard , Oscar Delgado , Tristan Glatard , Karthikeyan Premkumar , Kun Ni

Root cause analysis in modern cloud infrastructure demands sophisticated understanding of heterogeneous data sources, particularly time-series performance metrics that involve core failure signatures. While large language models demonstrate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Gijun Park

Tackling Natural Language Inference with a logic-based method is becoming less and less common. While this might have been counterintuitive several decades ago, nowadays it seems pretty obvious. The main reasons for such a conception are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Lasha Abzianidze

Since cascading outages are major threats to power systems, it is important to reduce the risk of potential cascading outages. In this paper, a risk management method of cascading outages based on Markovian tree search is proposed. With the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Rui Yao , Kai Sun , Feng Liu , Shengwei Mei

In order to plan for failure recovery, the designers of cloud systems need to understand how their system can potentially fail. Unfortunately, analyzing the failure behavior of such systems can be very difficult and time-consuming, due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Domenico Cotroneo , Luigi De Simone , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella , Nematollah Bidokhti

As multi-agent AI systems are increasingly deployed in real-world settings - from automated customer support to DevOps remediation - failures become harder to diagnose due to cascading effects, hidden dependencies, and long execution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhaohui Geoffrey Wang