A Distributed Approach to Diagnosis Candidate Generation

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2013

Authors

Nuno Cardoso (Author) Other; Rui Abreu (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: PROGRESS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, EPIA 2013

Pages: 175-186

16th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA)

Angra do Heroismo, PORTUGAL, SEP 09-12, 2013

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FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

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Authenticus ID: P-008-EFR

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40669-0_16

Abstract (EN): Generating diagnosis candidates for a set of failing transactions is an important challenge in the context of automatic fault localization of both software and hardware systems. Being an NP-Hard problem, exhaustive algorithms are usually prohibitive for real-world, often large, problems. In practice, the usage of heuristic-based approaches trade-off completeness for time efficiency. An example of such heuristic approaches is Staccato, which was proposed in the context of reasoning-based fault localization. In this paper, we propose an efficient distributed algorithm, dubbed MHS2, that renders the sequential search algorithm Staccato suitable to distributed, Map-Reduce environments. The results show that MHS2 scales to larger systems (when compared to Staccato), while entailing either marginal or small runtime overhead.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 12