Oil pipeline spill cause analysis: A classification tree approach

Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 186-198

  Bertolini, Massimo ^a   Bevilacqua, Maurizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b University of Bologna   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Decision trees; Maintenance programmes; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MAINTENANCE; OIL SPILLS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PIPELINES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COMPUTERIZED MAINTENANCE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMMIS); CROSS-COUNTRY PIPELINES; DECISION TREES; MAINTENANCE PROGRAMMES;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745057735     PISSN: 13552511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552510610667192     Document Type: Article

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