A review of different perspectives on uncertainty and risk and an alternative modeling paradigm

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 558-567

  Samson, Sundeep ^a   Reneke, James A ^a   Wiecek, Margaret M ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design problems; Multicriteria decision making; Risk; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISKS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CHALLENGE PROBLEMS; DECISION PROBLEMS; DESIGN PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICS; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; MODELING PARADIGMS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKINGS; MULTICRITERIA DECISION MAKING; OPTIMAL DECISIONS; RANDOM FUNCTIONS; SYSTEM RESPONSES; UNCERTAIN PARAMETERS; UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 54049102390     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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