Managing safety of heterogeneous systems: decisions under uncertainties and risks

Tools and techniques are provided for dealing with uncertainties and risks inapplied areas. A key issue concerns a vast variety of irreducible uncertainties, which require new concepts and analytical tools. The dilemma is concerned with enormous costs vs. massive uncertainties of potentially extreme impacts. Traditional approaches rely on real observations and experiments. Yet no sufficient observations exist for new problems, and learning by doing may be very expensive, dangerous, or impossible. In addition, historical observations are often contaminated by our actions and policies. The complexity of new problems require explicit treatment of uncertainties using 'synthetic' information composed of available 'hard' data from observations, the results of possible experiments, and scientific facts as well as 'soft' data from experts' opinions, scenarios, and public opinion. Hence, the focus of the present volume is on novel approaches to supporting robust decision-making and design. State-of-the-art analysis and optimization methods for effective coping with uncertainty and risks Advanced tools and techniques for dealing with uncertainty and risk in several applied areas, such as engineering, operations research, economics, environmental policy-making Proper treatment of stochastic andnon-stochastic uncertainty for robust optimal decisions under uncertainty andrisk

• ISBN: 978-3-642-22883-4
• Editorial: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 390
• Fecha Publicación: 30/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés