Modeling and analysing operation processes for dependability

Author

Xiwei Xu ; Liming Zhu ; Li, Jie ; Bass, Len ; Qinghua Lu ; Min Fu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2013

fDate

24-27 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Application dependability issues depend on increasingly sophisticated activities during operation time for deployment, upgrade, scaling out/in and reactions to various failures. Traditional approaches to improving application dependability focus on artifact-oriented troubleshooting and improvements. In this paper, we present an approach using process models to represent and analyze operations with considerations of exception handlings and fault-proneness. Our goal is to reduce diagnosis and repair time for application failures that occur during operation activities such as deployment and upgrade.

Keywords

exception handling; software fault tolerance; software reliability; system recovery; application dependability issues; application failures; artifact-oriented improvements; artifact-oriented troubleshooting; diagnosis time reduction; exception handlings; fault proneness; operation process analysis; operation process modeling; operation time; process models; repair time reduction; Analytical models; Availability; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Data models; Educational institutions; Maintenance engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2013 43rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1530-0889

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6471-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DSN.2013.6575337

Filename

6575337