Error and uncertainty in modeling and simulation

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 333-357

  Oberkampf, William L ^a   DeLand, Sharon M ^a   Rutherford, Brian M ^a   Diegert, Kathleen V ^a   Alvin, Kenneth F ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Aleatory uncertainty; Epistemic uncertainty; Modeling; Nondeterministic features; Simulation; Stochastic uncertainty; Subjective uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0036499020     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(01)00120-X     Document Type: Article

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