Dynamic risk management in petroleum project investment based on a variable precision rough set model

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 891-901

  Xie, Gang ^a   Yue, Wuyi ^b   Wang, Shouyang ^a   Lai, Kin Keung ^c  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Dynamic risk management; Multi objective programming; Petroleum; Variable precision rough set

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; DEGREE OF RISKS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; MULTIOBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPTIMAL SELECTION; PETROLEUM COMPANIES; RISK EXPOSURE; RISK INDICES; RISK RANKING; VARIABLE PRECISION ROUGH SET; VARIABLE PRECISION ROUGH SETS; VARIABLE-PRECISION ROUGH SET MODEL;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION TABLES; INVESTMENTS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; ROUGH SET THEORY;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

ALGORITHM; DECISION MAKING; INVESTMENT; MULTIOBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PETROLEUM; PRECISION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77953871904     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2010.01.013     Document Type: Article

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