Interacting systems of events may exhibit cascading behavior where events tend to be temporally clustered. While the cascades themselves may be obvious from the data, it is important to understand which states of the system trigger them. For this purpose, we propose a modeling framework based on continuous-time Bayesian networks (CTBNs) to analyze cascading behavior in complex systems. This framework allows us to describe how events propagate through the system and to identify likely sentry states, that is, system states that may lead to imminent cascading behavior. Moreover, CTBNs have a simple graphical representation and provide interpretable outputs, both of which are important when communicating with domain experts. We also develop new methods for knowledge extraction from CTBNs and we apply the proposed methodology to a data set of alarms in a large industrial system.

Bregoli, A., Rathsman, K., Scutari, M., Stella, F., Mogensen, S. (2023). Analyzing Complex Systems with Cascades Using Continuous-Time Bayesian Networks. In 30th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, TIME 2023. Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing [10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2023.8].

Analyzing Complex Systems with Cascades Using Continuous-Time Bayesian Networks

Bregoli A.
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Stella F.;
2023

Abstract

Interacting systems of events may exhibit cascading behavior where events tend to be temporally clustered. While the cascades themselves may be obvious from the data, it is important to understand which states of the system trigger them. For this purpose, we propose a modeling framework based on continuous-time Bayesian networks (CTBNs) to analyze cascading behavior in complex systems. This framework allows us to describe how events propagate through the system and to identify likely sentry states, that is, system states that may lead to imminent cascading behavior. Moreover, CTBNs have a simple graphical representation and provide interpretable outputs, both of which are important when communicating with domain experts. We also develop new methods for knowledge extraction from CTBNs and we apply the proposed methodology to a data set of alarms in a large industrial system.
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alarm network; continuous-time Bayesian network; event cascade; event model; graphical models;
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30th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, TIME 2023 - 25 September 2023 through 26 September 2023
2023
Artikis, A; Bruse, F; Hunsberger, L
30th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, TIME 2023
9783959772983
2023
278
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Bregoli, A., Rathsman, K., Scutari, M., Stella, F., Mogensen, S. (2023). Analyzing Complex Systems with Cascades Using Continuous-Time Bayesian Networks. In 30th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, TIME 2023. Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing [10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2023.8].
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