Applied Research in Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Attoh-Okine, Nii O. (Editor), Ayyub, Bilal M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: International Series in Intelligent Technologies, 20
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Engineering.; Economic theory.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Engineering, general.

Uncertainty has been a concern to engineers, managers, and scientists for many years. For a long time uncertainty has been considered synonymous with random, stochastic, statistic, or probabilistic. Since the early sixties views on uncertainty have become more heterogeneous. In the past forty years...