Probability and Possibility-Based Representations of Uncertainty in Fault Tree Analysis

Risk Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 121-133

  Flage, Roger ^a   Baraldi, Piero ^b   Zio, Enrico ^b,c   Aven, Terje ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

Epistemic uncertainty; Fault tree analysis; Possibility probability (probability possibility) transformation; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; FAULT-TREES; JOINT PROPAGATION; POSSIBILISTIC; POSSIBILISTIC APPROACH; POSSIBILITY-PROBABILITY (PROBABILITY-POSSIBILITY) TRANSFORMATION; PROBABILISTIC REPRESENTATION; PROBABILITY ASSIGNMENT; RELATIVE FREQUENCIES;

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR; TRANSFORMATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNDERPINNING;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION TREE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION TREES; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84872409960     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01873.x     Document Type: Article

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