Summary from the epistemic uncertainty workshop: Consensus amid diversity

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 85, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 355-369

  Ferson, Scott ^a   Joslyn, Cliff A ^b   Helton, Jon C ^c   Oberkampf, William L ^d   Sentz, Kari ^b  

^a APPLIED BIOMATHEMATICS   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Aleatory uncertainty; Challenge Problems; Epistemic uncertainty; Independence in imprecise probability models; Interval uncertainty; Repeated parameters

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

ALEATORY UNCERTAINTY; CHALLENGE PROBLEMS; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY; INDEPENDENCE IN IMPRECISE PROBABILITY MODELS; INTERVAL UNCERTAINTY; REPEATED PARAMETERS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 2642548122     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.03.023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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