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Track 1 Session 11
10:20 to 11:20 a.m. Friday March 27, 2009
Reliability Models: From Ad-Hoc Towards
Systematic Reuse
Development of reliability models can be very
extensive depending on the complexity of the system under analysis. One possibility
to reduce effort and costs to develop these models is to reuse them. Currently,
at some companies, reuse is performed according to the individual experience of
the engineers, the so called "ad-hoc reuse." Ad-hoc reuse is ineffective when the
knowledge of previously developed models has to be shared among several team members.
Therefore, a more suitable alternative is needed. Systematic reuse could not
only help reduce the time and costs of developing reliability models, but also
contribute to creating a shared reliability knowledge base. Some of the efforts
of systematically reusing reliability models, in particular fault trees, have
been oriented to the product line engineering paradigm. This presentation will
introduce an approach to explicitly document reliability models so they can be
systematically reused within a product line engineering development context.
Key Words: Reliability
Models, Fault Tree Analysis, Systematic Reuse, Product Line
Engineering
Carolina Gómez
University of Kaiserslautern, Siemens Corporate Technology
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