Editorial for the Special Issue on “Fault Trees and Attack Trees: Extensions, Solution Methods, and Applications”

Daniele Codetta‐Raiteri

doi:10.3390/info12040175

Abstract

Fault Trees are well-known models for the reliability analysis of systems, used to compute several kinds of qualitative and quantitative measures, such as minimal cut-sets, system failure probability, sensitivity (importance) indices, etc [...]

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The modeling elements introduced to this end, such as new gates, required the definition of new solving procedures, typically based on the Fault Tree conversion into other models, such as Binary Decision Diagrams (BDD), Markov chains, Petri nets, Bayesian networks, etc
Software tools and libraries for Fault/Attack Trees have been developed and improved over the years. The goal of this Special Issue is to collect recent developments in Fault/Attack Tree extensions, solution methods, software tools, and applications in reliability/security evaluation. The articles in this Special Issue cover a wide range of case studies examined by means of Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), where the models are constructed following approaches defined for the application fields

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Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Fault Trees are well-known models for the reliability analysis of systems, used to compute several kinds of qualitative and quantitative measures, such as minimal cut-sets, system failure probability, sensitivity (importance) indices, etc. Besides their application in reliability analysis, Fault Trees have been exploited to model attack modes and evaluate the security level of systems.

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