Self-tuning of fuzzy belief rule bases for engineering system safety analysis

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 143-168

  Liu, Jun ^a   Yang, Jian Bo ^b   Ruan, Da ^c   Martinez, Luis ^d   Wang, Jin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^e LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belief rule base; Evidential reasoning; Fuzzy logic; Optimization; Safety analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249121756     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-008-0327-0     Document Type: Article

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