How to treat expert judgment? With certainty it contains uncertainty!

HJ Pasman, WJ Rogers - Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process …, 2020 - Elsevier
To be acceptably safe one must identify the risks one is exposed to and decide what risk
reducing measures are required. It is uncertain whether the threat really will materialize, but …

[HTML][HTML] Thirty years of credal networks: Specification, algorithms and complexity

DD Mauá, FG Cozman - International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2020 - Elsevier
Credal networks generalize Bayesian networks to allow for imprecision in probability values.
This paper reviews the main results on credal networks under strong independence, as …

Addressing the epistemic uncertainty in maritime accidents modelling using Bayesian network with interval probabilities

G Zhang, VV Thai, KF Yuen, HS Loh, Q Zhou - Safety science, 2018 - Elsevier
Bayesian Network (BN) is often criticized for demanding a large number of
crisp/exact/precise conditional probability numbers which, due to the lack of statistics, have …

Tackling uncertainty in security assessment of critical infrastructures: Dempster-Shafer Theory vs. Credal Sets Theory

A Misuri, N Khakzad, G Reniers, V Cozzani - Safety science, 2018 - Elsevier
Securing critical infrastructures is a complex task. Required information is usually scarce or
inexistent, and experts' judgments may be inaccurate and biased. In this paper, two …

Bayesian networks with imprecise probabilities: Theory and application to classification

G Corani, A Antonucci, M Zaffalon - Data Mining: Foundations and …, 2012 - Springer
Bayesian networks are powerful probabilistic graphical models for modelling uncertainty.
Among others, classification represents an important application: some of the most used …

Pari-mutuel probabilities as an uncertainty model

I Montes, E Miranda, S Destercke - Information Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
The pari-mutuel model is a betting scheme that has its origins in horse racing, and that has
been applied in a number of contexts, mostly economics. In this paper, we consider the set …

Probabilistic inference in credal networks: new complexity results

DD Mauá, CP de Campos, A Benavoli… - Journal of Artificial …, 2014 - jair.org
Credal networks are graph-based statistical models whose parameters take values in a set,
instead of being sharply specified as in traditional statistical models (eg, Bayesian …

Impact on place of death in cancer patients: a causal exploration in southern Switzerland

H Kern, G Corani, D Huber, N Vermes, M Zaffalon… - BMC palliative …, 2020 - Springer
Background Most terminally ill cancer patients prefer to die at home, but a majority die in
institutional settings. Research questions about this discrepancy have not been fully …

Extreme points of the credal sets generated by comparative probabilities

E Miranda, S Destercke - Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 2015 - Elsevier
When using convex probability sets (or, equivalently, lower previsions) as uncertainty
models, identifying extreme points can help simplifying various computations or the use of …

Using Prior Risk‐Related Knowledge to Support Risk Management Decisions: Lessons Learnt from a Tunneling Project

IC Cárdenas, SSH Al‐Jibouri, JIM Halman… - Risk …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The authors of this article have developed six probabilistic causal models for critical risks in
tunnel works. The details of the models' development and evaluation were reported in two …