Concerns, Challenges, and Directions of Development for the Issue of Representing Uncertainty in Risk Assessment

Risk Analysis

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1196-1207

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b EDF R AND D   (France)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decision making; Epistemic uncertainty; Representation; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES; DECISION MAKERS; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; INTERVAL PROBABILITY; POSSIBILISTIC MEASURES; QUALITATIVE METHOD; REPRESENTATION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DECISION MAKING; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84904996782     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/risa.12247     Document Type: Article

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