Why Risk Analysis is Difficult, and Some Thoughts on How to Proceed

Risk Analysis

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1638-1646

  Ben Haim, Yakov ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Info gap theory; Optimizing; Robustness; Satisficing; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL TECHNOLOGY; INFO-GAP; NON-PROBABILISTIC; OPTIMIZING; ROBUST DECISIONS; SATISFICING; UNCERTAINTY;

PHYSIOLOGY; RISK ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SAFETY ENGINEERING;

INNOVATION;

DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; OPTIMIZATION; PHILOSOPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867021563     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01859.x     Document Type: Article

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