Fault tree analysis and fuzzy expert systems: Early warning and emergency response of landfill operations

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-25

  Dokas, I M ^a   Karras, D A ^b   Panagiotakopoulos, D C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Accidents; Early Warning System; Expert systems; Fault tree analysis; Fuzzy logic; Landfills; Operational problems; Possibility theory; Public Access to Environmental Information

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ARSENIC; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ENGINEERING FACILITIES; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTEGRATION; LAND FILL; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; RELIABILITY; SOLID WASTES; TECHNOLOGY; TESTING; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WEIGHT CONTROL;

ACCIDENTS; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS; EARLY-WARNING; EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING; EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY RESPONSES; ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION; EUROPEAN UNION; FUZZY EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY LOGIC; LANDFILL OPERATIONS; LANDFILLS; OPERATION MANAGEMENTS; OPERATIONAL PROBLEMS; POSSIBILITY THEORY; PUBLIC ACCESS; PUBLIC ACCESS TO ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION; SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS; SYNTHETIC EVENTS; TEST CASES; WORKING CONDITIONS; WORLDWIDE WEB;

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENT; DATABASE; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EUROPEAN UNION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; LANDFILL; PUBLIC ACCESS; SOLID WASTE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 49749084831     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2008.04.011     Document Type: Article

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