Separating aleatory and epistemic uncertainties: Probabilistic sewer flooding evaluation using probability box

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 420-421, Issue , 2012, Pages 360-372

  Sun, Siao ^a   Fu, Guangtao ^b   Djordjević, Slobodan ^b   Khu, Soon Thiam ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aleatory and epistemic uncertainty; Fuzzy sets; Probability box; Random sets; Sewer flooding; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; EVALUATION PROBLEMS; MODEL OUTPUTS; MODEL PARAMETERS; PROBABILITY BOX; RAINFALL VARIABLE; RANDOM SET; SEWER FLOODING; SIMULATION MODEL; UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY SETS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; RAIN; SET THEORY; SEWERS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FLOODING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SEPARATION; SEWER NETWORK; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856210017     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.12.027     Document Type: Article

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