Foreword |
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Acknowledgments |
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Chapter 1 Why and Where Uncertainties |
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1.1 Sources and forms of uncertainty |
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1.3 Sources of uncertainty |
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Chapter 2 Models and Language of Uncertainty |
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2.2.2 Fundamental notions |
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2.3 Belief functions theory |
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2.3.1 Representation of beliefs |
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2.3.3 Extension and marginalization |
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2.3.4 Pignistic transformation |
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2.4.2 Operations on fuzzy sets |
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2.5.2 Fuzzy probabilities |
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2.6.2 Possibility and necessity measures |
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2.6.3 Operations on possibility and necessity measures |
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2.7.2 Expectation of random sets |
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2.7.4 Confidence interval |
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2.8 Confidence structures or c-boxes |
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2.8.2 Confidence distributions |
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2.8.3 P-boxes and C-boxes |
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2.9 Imprecise probability theory |
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Chapter 3 Risk Graphs and Risk Matrices: Application of Fuzzy Sets and Belief Reasoning |
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3.1 SIL allocation scheme |
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3.1.1 Safety instrumented systems (SIS) |
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3.1.2 Conformity to standards ANSUISA S84.01-1996 and IEC 61508 |
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3.1.3 Taxonomy of risk/SIL assessment methods |
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3.1.5 SIL allocation process |
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3.1.6 The use of experts' opinions |
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3.2 SIL allocation based on possibility theory |
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3.2.1 Eliciting the experts' opinions |
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3.2.2 Rating scales for parameters |
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3.2.3 Subjective elicitation of the risk parameters |
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3.2.4 Calibration of experts' opinions |
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3.2.5 Aggregation of the opinions |
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3.3.1 Input fuzzy partition and fuzzification |
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3.3.2 Risk/SIL graph logic by fuzzy inference system |
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3.3.3 Output fuzzy partition and defuzzification |
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3.4 Risk/SIL graph: belief functions reasoning |
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3.4.1 Elicitation of expert opinions in the belief functions theory |
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3.4.2 Aggregation of expert opinions |
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3.5 Evidential risk graph |
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3.6 Numerical illustration |
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3.6.1 Clustering of experts' opinions |
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3.6.2 Aggregation of preferences |
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3.6.3 Evidential risk/SIL graph |
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Chapter 4 Dependability Assessment Considering Interval-valued Probabilities |
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4.1.1 Interval-valued parameters |
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4.1.2 Interval-valued reliability |
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4.1.3 Assessing the imprecise average probability of failure on demand |
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4.2 Constraint arithmetic |
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4.3.1 Application example |
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4.3.2 Monte Carlo sampling approach |
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4.4.2 Multiphase Markov chains |
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4.4.3 Markov chains with fuzzy numbers |
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4.4.4 Fuzzy modeling of SIS characteristic parameters |
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4.5.2 Enhanced Markov analysis |
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4.6 Decision-making under uncertainty |
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Chapter 5 Evidential Networks |
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5.1.2 Computing believe and plausibility measures as bounds |
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5.1.4 Modeling imprecision and ignorance in nodes |
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5.2 Evidential Network to model and compute Fuzzy probabilities |
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5.2.1 Fuzzy probability and basic probability assignment |
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5.2.2 Nested interval-valued probabilities to fuzzy probability |
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5.2.3 Computation mechanism |
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5.3 Evidential Networks to compute p-box |
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5.3.1 Connection between p-boxes and BPA |
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5.3.2 P-boxes and interval-valued probabilities |
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5.3.3 P-boxes and precise probabilities |
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5.3.4 Time-dependent p-boxes |
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5.3.5 Computation mechanism |
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5.4 Modeling some reliability problems |
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5.4.1 BPA for reliability problems |
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5.4.2 Building Boolean CMT (AND, OR) |
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5.4.3 Conditional mass table for more than two inputs (k-out-of-n:G gate) |
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5.4.4 Nodes for Pls and Bel in the binary case |
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5.4.5 Modeling reliability with p-boxes |
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5.5 Illustration by application of Evidential Networks |
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5.5.1 Reliability assessment of system |
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5.5.2 Inference for failure isolation |
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5.5.3 Assessing the fuzzy reliability of systems |
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5.5.4 Assessing the p-box reliability by EN |
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Chapter 6 Reliability Uncertainty and Importance Factors |
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6.2 Hypothesis and notation |
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6.3 Probabilistic importance measures of components |
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6.3.1 Birnbaum importance measure |
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6.3.2 Component criticality measure |
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6.3.3 Diagnostic importance measure |
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6.3.4 Reliability achievement worth (RAW) |
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6.3.5 Reliability reduction worth (RRW) |
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6.3.6 Observations and limitations |
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6.3.7 Importance measures computation |
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6.4 Probabilistic importance measures of pairs and groups of components |
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6.4.1 Measures on minimum cutsets/pathsets/groups |
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6.4.2 Extension of RAW and RRW to pairs |
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6.4.3 Joint reliability importance factor (JR) |
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6.5 Uncertainty importance measures |
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6.5.1 Uncertainty probabilistic importance measures |
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184 | (2) |
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6.5.2 Importance factors with imprecision |
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186 | (2) |
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6.6 Importance measures with fuzzy probabilities |
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6.6.1 Fuzzy importance measures |
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189 | (1) |
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6.6.2 Fuzzy uncertainty measures |
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190 | (1) |
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6.7.1 Importance factors on a simple system |
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6.7.2 Importance factors in a complex case |
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6.7.3 Illustration of group importance measures |
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197 | (3) |
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6.7.4 Uncertainty importance factors |
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200 | (3) |
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6.7.5 Fuzzy importance measures |
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Conclusion |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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