Unfolding-based diagnosis of systems with an evolving topology

作者：Baldan Paolo^*; Chatain Thomas; Haar Stefan; Koenig Barbara

来源：Information and Computation, 2010, 208(10): 1169-1192.

DOI：10.1016/j.ic.2009.11.009

• Model-based diagnosis
• Distributed and concurrent systems
• Partial order methods
• Graph rewriting

We propose a framework for model-based diagnosis of systems with mobility and variable topologies, modelled as graph transformation systems. Generally speaking, model-based diagnosis is aimed at constructing explanations of observed faulty behaviours on the basis of a given model of the system. Since the number of possible explanations may be huge, we exploit the unfolding as a compact data structure to store them, along the lines of previous work dealing with Petri net models. Given a model of a system and an observation, the explanations can be constructed by unfolding the model constrained by the observation, and then removing incomplete explanations in a pruning phase. The theory is formalised in a general categorical setting: constraining the system by the observation corresponds to taking a product in the chosen category of graph grammars, so that the correctness of the procedure can be proved by using the fact that the unfolding is a right adjoint and thus it preserves products. The theory should hence be easily applicable to a wide class of system models, including graph grammars and Petri nets.

• 出版日期2010-10
• 单位INRIA