Improving scenario discovery for handling heterogeneous uncertainties and multinomial classified outcomes

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 79, Issue , 2016, Pages 311-321

  Kwakkel, Jan H ^a   Jaxa Rozen, Marc ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deep uncertainty; Robust decision making; Scenario discovery

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING;

BINARY CLASSIFICATION; DEEP UNCERTAINTIES; HILL-CLIMBING OPTIMIZATION; MODEL BASED APPROACH; ROBUST DECISIONS; RULE INDUCTION METHODS; SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT; SCENARIO DISCOVERY;

DATA HANDLING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DECISION MAKING; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ROLE;

EID: 84960118746     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.11.020     Document Type: Article

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