A fuzzy set approach for event tree analysis

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 153-165

  Huang, David ^a   Chen, Toly ^b   Wang, Mao Jiun J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b LING TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Event tree analysis; Fuzzy error rate possibility; Human error; Linguistic variable

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

EVENT TREE ANALYSIS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0035255110     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0114(98)00288-7     Document Type: Article

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