97-541 Galves A., Gaudel M. C.

Rare Events in Stochastic Dynamical Systems and Failures in Ultra-Reliable Reactive Programs (47K, Plain TeX) Oct 13, 97

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Abstract. This paper presents a model of reactive process-control programs as stochastic processes. This makes it possible to prove that the law of the first failure time in a ultra-reliable reactive program is approximately exponential. This fact is usually assumed on the basis of a constant probability of failure and the independence of the successive inputs. These hypotheses {\sl a priori}, do not hold for reactive process-control programs. Our result provides a rigourous justification of the exponential assumption for a large class of ultra-reliable reactive programs.

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