Risk analysis in a linguistic environment: A fuzzy evidential reasoning-based approach

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 15438-15446

  Deng, Yong ^a   Sadiq, Rehan ^b   Jiang, Wen ^c   Tesfamariam, Solomon ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Dempster Shafer theory of evidence; Fuzzy set theory; Risk analysis; Similarity measure

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS APPROACH; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY OF EVIDENCE; DOMAIN EXPERTS; FAILURE MECHANISM; IMPRECISE INFORMATION; LINGUISTIC APPROACH; LINGUISTIC ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; SEMI-QUANTITATIVE; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SYSTEM FAILURES; SYSTEM RISK; UNCERTAIN DATAS;

FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 80052032045     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.06.018     Document Type: Article

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