NDLI: Causal Inference Based Service Dependency Graph for Statistical Service Fault Localization

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Lixian Li Jin Liu Zhangbing Zhou Haoyu Luo Wenrui Liu Juan Li
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Comput. Sch., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China (Lixian Li; Jin Liu; Haoyu Luo; Wenrui Liu; Juan Li) \|\| Sch. of Inf. Eng., China Univ. of Geosci., Beijing, China (Zhangbing Zhou)
Abstract	In the interconnection environment, people combine basic services into composite services to provide more complex function for sophisticated applications. Accordingly, service fault localization in composite services becomes a critical issue for guaranteeing the normal running of composite services. This paper proposes a novel Causal Inference based Service Dependency Graph (CISDG) for statistical service fault localization. Our approach first utilizes the dependencies between basic services in the composite services by transforming the service dependency graph into a causal graph. Then it intuitively applies the causal inference to service fault localization on the composite services. Our work mainly focuses on developing CISDG and the causal inference on CISDG. To develop CISDG, we characterize the dependency and causal relationships between basic services and the target causal graph. To perform the causal inference on CISDG, we apply the well-known causal inference techniques such as the Back-Door Criterion and enhance the algorithm of the network diagnostic algorithm based Causal Inference (CIND) to improve the efficiency of the statistical service fault localization. The case study illustrates that our approach has advantages over its rivals in the service fault localization of composite services.
Starting Page	41
Ending Page	48
File Size	3204165
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479967155
DOI	10.1109/SKG.2014.21
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-08-27
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Algorithm design and analysis Fault tolerance Correlation CISDG Fault tolerant systems fault localization Logic gates Educational institutions Inference algorithms causal inference network diagnostic algorithm
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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