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Mixing collect-expression and collect-formula instructions #183

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rakhimov opened this issue May 8, 2017 · 0 comments
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Mixing collect-expression and collect-formula instructions #183

rakhimov opened this issue May 8, 2017 · 0 comments

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rakhimov commented May 8, 2017

It's not certain how to handle mixing expressions with formulas
in event-tree branches.
Some ideas/approaches:

  • The Ugly:
    Make it a special case across all the analyses,
    and multiply the expressions with the probability expressions
    of the collected formulas to find the sequence probabilities.

  • The Bad:
    Create 'phony' basic-events for event-tree functional event path states
    that are described by the collected expressions.
    However, these 'phony' events cannot show up in reports
    or fault tree analysis products.
    Moreover, since the functional event states are not constrained,
    the actual semantics of these basic events cannot be deduced.
    In other words, the analysis can end up with a non-coherent fault tree
    without even being capable of deducing it from the input alone.

  • The Good:
    (a) For qualitative analyses, force users to be explicit
    and to use concrete Boolean formulas or basic-events
    for functional-events and their states.
    (b) Perform only quantitative analyses assuming (testing?)
    that the collected formulas are conditionally independent in parallel paths;
    however, put a giant warning in the report.

rakhimov added a commit that referenced this issue May 11, 2017
Mixing these instructions is not handled by the analysis,
so the initializer validates the input for this invalid setup.

Issue #183
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