Mining Models for Failing Behaviors

Abstract — Understanding the causes for failure is one of the bottlenecks in the educational process. Despite failure prediction has been pursued, models behind that prediction, most of the time, do not give a deep insight about failure causes. In this paper, we introduce a new method for mining fault trees automatically, and show that these models are a precious help on identifying direct and indirect causes for failure. An experimental study is presented in order to access the drawbacks of the proposed method. Keywords-mining behaviors, fault trees; pattern mining I