Bayesian Stochastic Petri Nets (BSPN) - A new modelling tool for dynamic safety and reliability analysis

An efficient formalism for safety analysis should be: (i) able to consider the failure behaviour of complex engineering systems, and (ii) dynamic in nature to capture changing conditions and have wider applicability. The current formalisms used for safety analysis are lacking in one of the above-listed criteria. Bayesian network (BN) allows the modelling of failure of systems where the inter-nodal dependencies are represented exclusively by...