Managing multiple sources of epistemic uncertainty in engineering decision making

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Schlosser, Jeffrey ^a   Paredis, Christiaan J J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DESIGN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DECISION PROBLEMS; ENGINEERING DECISION MAKING; ENGINEERING DECISIONS; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; INFORMATION ECONOMICS; MANAGING UNCERTAINTY; PROBABILITY BOUNDS ANALYSIS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 85088337978     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2007-01-1481     Document Type: Conference Paper

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