Environmental problems that seriously affect both natural systems and social development
of human beings have drawn extensive attention from governing authorities all around the …

In the system reliability evaluation of the process industries, it is sometimes difficult to get
precise and sufficient failure data of system components utilized to calculate the failure …

In quantitative fault tree analysis of a system, exact failure probability values of components
are utilized to calculate the failure probability of the system. However, in many real world …

A method is presented for analysis of reliability of complex engineering systems using
information from fault tree analysis and uncertainty/imprecision of data. Fuzzy logic is a …

Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a graphical model which has been widely used as a deductive
tool for nuclear power plant (NPP) probabilistic safety assessment (PSA). The conventional …

Advancement and application of rule-based systems have always been a key research area
in computer-aided support for human decision making due to the fact that rule base is one of …

A novel approach incorporating a fuzzy rule base technique and an Evidential Reasoning
(ER) algorithm is applied to conduct the navigational risk assessment of an Inland Waterway …

Probabilistic approaches are common in the analysis of reliability of complex engineering
systems. However, they require quantitative historical failure data for determining reliability …

Abstract The Evidential Reasoning (ER) approach is a general approach for analyzing
multiple criteria decision problems under various types of uncertainty using a unified …

Belief rule base (BRB) systems are an extension of traditional IF-THEN rule based systems
and capable of capturing complicated nonlinear causal relationships between antecedent …