Coherent lower previsions in systems modelling: Products and aggregation rules

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 85, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 113-134

  De Cooman, Gert ^a   Troffaes, Matthias C M ^a  

^a Onderzoeksgroep SYSTeMS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Coherent lower previsions; Conjunction; Disjunction; Expert information; Independence; Marginal extension; Natural extension; Type I product

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

COHERENT LOWER PREVISIONS; CONJUNCTION; DISJUNCTION; EXPERT INFORMATION; INDEPENDENCE; MARGINAL EXTENSION; NATURAL EXTENSION; TYPE-I PRODUCT;

UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

EID: 2642546565     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.03.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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