Fuzzy rule-based evidential reasoning approach for safety analysis

International Journal of General Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 183-204

  Liu, Jun ^a   Yang, Jian B O ^a   Wang, Jin ^b   Sii, How Sing ^b   Wang, Ying Ming ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Decision making; Evidential reasoning; Fuzzy rule base; Safety analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; SAFETY DEVICES;

EVIDENTIAL REASONING; FUZZY RULE-BASE; SAFETY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

FUZZY CONTROL;

EID: 8844283593     PISSN: 03081079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03081070310001633536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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