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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

This paper presents an approach for identifying the root causes of collective anomalies given observational time series and an acyclic summary causal graph which depicts an abstraction of causal relations present in a dynamic system at its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Charles K. Assaad , Imad Ez-zejjari , Lei Zan

Detecting anomalies and the corresponding root causes in multivariate time series plays an important role in monitoring the behaviors of various real-world systems, e.g., IT system operations or manufacturing industry. Previous anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Wenzhuo Yang , Kun Zhang , Steven C. H. Hoi

The recent increase in the scale and complexity of software systems has introduced new challenges to the time series monitoring and anomaly detection process. A major drawback of existing anomaly detection methods is that they lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Sayan Chakraborty , Smit Shah , Kiumars Soltani , Anna Swigart

Modern distributed cyber-physical systems (CPSs) encounter a large variety of physical faults and cyber anomalies and in many cases, they are vulnerable to catastrophic fault propagation scenarios due to strong connectivity among the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Chao Liu , Sambuddha Ghosal , Zhanhong Jiang , Soumik Sarkar

Root cause analysis (RCA) for time-series anomaly detection is critical for the reliable operation of complex real-world systems. Existing explanation methods often rely on unrealistic feature perturbations and ignore temporal and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shashank Mishra , Karan Patil , Cedric Schockaert , Didier Stricker , Jason Rambach

In recent years, the widespread adoption of distributed microservice architectures within the industry has significantly increased the demand for enhanced system availability and robustness. Due to the complex service invocation paths and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Ziming Zhao , Zhenwei Wang , Tiehua Zhang , Zhishu Shen , Hai Dong , Zhen Lei , Xingjun Ma , Gaowei Xu , Zhijun Ding , Yun Yang

Root cause analysis is one of the most crucial operations in software reliability regarding system performance diagnostic. It aims to identify the root causes of system performance anomalies, allowing the resolution or the future prevention…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Andrea Tonon , Meng Zhang , Bora Caglayan , Fei Shen , Tong Gui , MingXue Wang , Rong Zhou

Automation and computer intelligence to support complex human decisions becomes essential to manage large and distributed systems in the Cloud and IoT era. Understanding the root cause of an observed symptom in a complex system has been a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Marc Solé , Victor Muntés-Mulero , Annie Ibrahim Rana , Giovani Estrada

The goal of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is to explain why an anomaly occurred by identifying where the fault originated. Several recent works model the anomalous event as resulting from a change in the causal mechanism at the root cause,…

Root cause analysis of anomalies aims to identify how and why a sample deviates from the normal process. Existing methods primarily focus on telling which features are responsible, ignoring that anomalies can arise through two fundamentally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hendrik Suhr , David Kaltenpoth , Jilles Vreeken

This paper introduces a new structural causal model tailored for representing threshold-based IT systems and presents a new algorithm designed to rapidly detect root causes of anomalies in such systems. When root causes are not causally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Lei Zan , Charles K. Assaad , Emilie Devijver , Eric Gaussier , Ali Aït-Bachir

Root cause analysis in a large-scale production environment is challenging due to the complexity of services running across global data centers. Due to the distributed nature of a large-scale system, the various hardware, software, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Fred Lin , Keyur Muzumdar , Nikolay Pavlovich Laptev , Mihai-Valentin Curelea , Seunghak Lee , Sriram Sankar

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

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

In this paper, we propose REASON, a novel framework that enables the automatic discovery of both intra-level (i.e., within-network) and inter-level (i.e., across-network) causal relationships for root cause localization. REASON consists of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Dongjie Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Jingchao Ni , Liang Tong , Zheng Wang , Yanjie Fu , Haifeng Chen

Identifying the underlying reason for a failing dynamic process or otherwise anomalous observation is a fundamental challenge, yet has numerous industrial applications. Identifying the failure-causing sub-system using causal inference, one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Juliane Weilbach , Sebastian Gerwinn , Karim Barsim , Martin Fränzle

As cyber-physical systems grow increasingly interconnected and spatially distributed, ensuring their resilience against evolving cyberattacks has become a critical priority. Spatio-Temporal Anomaly detection plays an important role in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Arun Vignesh Malarkkan , Haoyue Bai , Xinyuan Wang , Anjali Kaushik , Dongjie Wang , Yanjie Fu

We study distribution-free root cause analysis in multi-stream data, where an evolving underlying system is observed through multiple data streams that may each undergo distributional changes at unknown timepoints. In such settings, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-22 Rohan Hore , Aaditya Ramdas

This paper proposes graph analysis methods to fully automate the fault location identification task in power distribution systems. The proposed methods take basic unordered data from power distribution systems as input, including branch…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Ali Shakeri Kahnamouei , Saeed Lotfifard
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