A response-modeling approach to characterization and propagation of uncertainty specified over intervals

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 85, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 211-222

  Rutherford, Brian ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Computational modeling; Dempster Shafer theory; Epistemic uncertainty; Interval uncertainty; Sandia challenge problems

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

BELIEF FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; DEMPSTER SHAFER THEORY; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY; INTERVAL UNCERTAINTY; SANDIA CHALLENGE PROBLEMS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 2642535202     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.03.024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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