Importance measures in risk-informed decision making: Ranking, optimisation and configuration control

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1426-1436

  Vaurio, Jussi K ^a  

^a Prometh Solutions   (Finland)

Author keywords

Common cause; Configuration; Criticality; Importance; Optimization; PSA; Ranking; Risk

Indexed keywords

COMMON CAUSE; CONFIGURATION; IMPORTANCE; PSA; RANKING;

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); DECISION MAKING; MAINTENANCE; OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 80052462591     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.06.012     Document Type: Article

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