Alternative measures of risk of extreme events in decision trees

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 69-84

  Frohwein, H I ^a   Lambert, J H ^a   Haimes, Y Y ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RISK MANAGEMENT; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

HURWICZ-CRITERION ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA DECISION MAKING; SEQUENTIAL DECISIONS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0032643761     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(99)00022-8     Document Type: Article

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