Expert elicitation approach for performing ATHEANA quantification

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 207-220

  Forester, John ^a   Bley, Dennis ^b   Cooper, Susan ^c   Lois, Erasmia ^c   Siu, Nathan ^c   Kolaczkowski, Alan ^d   Wreathall, John ^e  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Buttonwood Consulting Inc   (United States)

^c U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

^d SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^e John Wreathall and Co Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

ATHEANA; Expert elicitation; HRA; Human performance; Human reliability analysis; PRA; Probabilistic risk assessment; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION USE; PERSONNEL; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY THEORY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ELICITATION PROCESSES; ERROR-FORCING CONTEXTS (EFC); UNSAFE HUMAN ACTIONS (UA);

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 0346991647     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2003.09.011     Document Type: Article

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