“…The above requirements were motivated by our application to distributed fault management in telecommunications networks and services (Aghasaryan et al, 2002(Aghasaryan et al, , 2004Fabre et al, 2004aFabre et al, , 2004b. Since faults in this context are typically transient, providing explanations in the form of Bcorrelation scenarios^showing the causal relations between faults and alarms, is essential.…”