Issues in societal optimal engineering decision making

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 335-351

  Faber, Michael H ^a   Maes, Marc A ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision making; Expert opinion; Life saving costs; Perception; Risk; Risk assessment; Sustainability; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; GAME THEORY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SAFETY ENGINEERING; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

BAYESIAN DECISION THEORY; ENGINEERING DECISION MAKING; HIERARCHICAL REPRESENTATION; OPTIMAL DECISION MAKING; STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 47149103897     PISSN: 15732479     EISSN: 17448980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15732470701270033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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