STAMP extends current accident causality to include more complex causes than simply component failures and chains of failure events or deviations from operational expectations.
Both AcciMaps and the Johnson model attempted to expand fault trees (which are themselves based on chains of failure events) to include more types of information in the tree.
Experts said it could be difficult, perhaps impossible, to reconstruct the chain of failures from the proximate cause, the hole, to the initiating event.
Typically, prison represents not the ultimate deterrent for hardcore young criminals, but one link in a chain of failures in social policy and social care.
Mr. Uhran, the NASA official, said that the failure of a critical system like carbon dioxide removal could occur only after a highly unlikely chain of failures, including the loss of the Russian and American carbon dioxide removal systems.
The Sogo bankruptcy, one of the biggest in Japan, could now create a domino chain of failures among Sogo suppliers and others dependent on the 170-year-old retailer.
But the Weaver acquisition, in a three-way trade with Detroit and Oakland, set in motion a chain of failures the Yankees hope to reverse with the signings of C. C. Sabathia and A. J. Burnett this season.
PARIS — The French automaker Renault dismissed its chief operating officer and six others after internal and external audits showed a "chain of failures" in the events that led to the unjust accusations of spying against three of its employees.
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday issued a sweeping indictment of a chain of failures at American intelligence agencies that permitted a Nigerian man with explosives sewn into his underwear to board a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day.
While city and state investigators did not fault the agency directly in each death, in every case they linked agency personnel to a chain of failures and oversights in protecting the children — a discouraging record even for the perilous world of foster care.
