Title
Soft Failure Detection Using Factorial Hidden Markov Models
Abstract
In modern business, educational, and other settings, it is common to provide a digital network that interconnects hardware devices for shared access by the users (e.g., in an office where printers are available for use by all the office workers). In such a context, so-called "soft" failures, where a device silently starts working in degraded mode, may easily go un-noticed for a long time, resulting in potential productivity loss. It is therefore advantageous to enable system administrators to identify soft failures at an early stage. We propose here a probabilistic method using variational inference on a factorial hidden Markov model to automatically discover soft failures, based on the analysis of simple usage information which is normally logged by the network infrastructure. We propose to mine these logs in order to discover statistically significant deviations in the usage behavior of the overall infrastructure, and we identify such deviations with soft failures, or, in any case, situations of interest to an administrator.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/ICMLA.2007.99
ICMLA
Keywords
Field
DocType
business education,statistical significance,probability,hidden markov models,probabilistic method
Digital network,Data mining,Degraded mode,Markov model,Computer science,Inference,Probabilistic method,Artificial intelligence,Hidden Markov model,Factorial hidden markov model,Machine learning
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-3069-9
2
0.51
References 
Authors
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guillaume Bouchard143339.20
Jean-Marc Andreoli276472.75