SATMCS: An Efficient SAT-Based Algorithm and Its Improvements for Computing Minimal Cut Sets

Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a prominent reliability analysis method, which is widely used in safety-critical industries. Computing the minimal cut sets (MCSs) of a fault tree, i.e., finding all the smallest combinations of the basic events that cause system failures, is a fundamental step in FTA. Since coherent fault trees are the most common in industrial systems in practice, they are the focus ...