Hybrid analysis of uncertainty: Probability, fuzziness and antioptimization

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1403-1414

  Tonon, Fulvio ^a,d   Bernardini, Alberto ^b   Elishakoff, Isaac ^c  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Florida Atlantic University   (United States)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

HYBRID ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035372267     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(00)00103-X     Document Type: Article

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