Applying risk models to formulation of safety cases

Risk Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 433-444

  Youngblood, Robert W ^a  

^a SCIENTECH   (United States)

Author keywords

Boolean optimization; Event trees; Fault trees; Importance measures; Risk informed regulation

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; CODES (STANDARDS); FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BOOLEAN OPTIMIZATION; RISK-INFORMED REGULATIONS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032142724     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1998.tb00358.x     Document Type: Review

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