An approach to combining unreliable pieces of evidence and their propagation in a system response analysis

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 85, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 103-112

  Kozine, Igor O ^a   Utkin, Lev V ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b SAINT PETERSBURG STATE FOREST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Combining evidence; Epistemic uncertainty; Imprecise coherent probabilities; Propagating uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMBINING EVIDENCE; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY; IMPRECISE COHERENT PROBABILITY; PROPAGATING UNCERTAINTY;

UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

EID: 2642573432     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.03.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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