A review of possibilistic approaches to reliability analysis and optimization in engineering design

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4553 LNCS, Issue PART 4, 2007, Pages 1075-1084

  He, Li Ping ^a   Huang, Hong Zhong ^b   Du, Li ^b   Zhang, Xu Dong ^b   Miao, Qiang ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA HANDLING; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ENGINEERING DESIGN; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 38149071762     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73111-5_118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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