The Management of Uncertainty: Approaches, Methods and Applications
The Management of Uncertainty: Approaches, Methods and Applications

Author: Luc Wilkin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9400944586

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For thirty years, the literature on decision-making and planning has been divided into two camps : work premised on rational models of choice and work designed to discredit such models. The sustained critic of fully rational decision-making theories has al ready a long history and a constant message to deliver : in practice, consequential decision-making hardly fulfills the canons of perfect rationality. There is also evidence that decision-making and planning are not unitary processes. Although the concept of "decision-making" connotes the idea of a single process, making a single choice involves a complex of processing tasks : structuring the problem, finding alternatives worth considering, deciding what information is relevant, assessing various consequences, and a variety of others. The aim of this volume is to bring together and try to inter relate some of the concepts and relevant knowledge from various disciplines concerned with one important aspect of this complex process : the management of uncertainty. It is hardly necessary to reiterate the case made by numerous authors about our changing and increasingly uncertain world. Suffice it to say here that it is uncertainty about the future, and in many cases about the past and the present also, which makes decision-making and planning so difficul t. The management of uncertainty may be defined as the way in which uncertainty is treated and processed in decision-making.

An Introduction to Systems Science
An Introduction to Systems Science

Author: John N. Warfield

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 981256702X

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"This is the first book that renders a thorough discussion of systems science. It draws on material from an extensive collection of external sources, including several other books and a special library collection complete with videotape empirical evidence of applicability of the theory to a wide variety of circumstances. This is essential because systems science must be responsive to diverse human situations of the widest difficulty, and it must fill the void that the specific sciences cannot fill, because these sciences are insensitive to the necessities of reconciling disparate views of multiple observers, and incorporating local conditions in hypotheses that precede inductive explorations."--BOOK JACKET.

Compromise, Negotiation and Group Decision
Compromise, Negotiation and Group Decision

Author: Bertrand Munier

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9400940211

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Financial support from the following institutions, in addition to the personal contributions of the 200 parti cipants, made the conference an enjoyable event - Universite d' Aix-Narseille III - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - City of Aix-en-Provence - Faculte d'Economie Appliquee - G.R.A.S.C.E. Association Fran~aise de Science economique - Air France - Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Marseille - Chambre Regionale de Commerce et d'Industrie (Provence - Alpes - Cote d'Azur - Corse) - Compagnie Fran~aise des Petroles - Conseil General des Bouches-du-Rhone - Conseil Regional (Provence - Alpes - Cote d'Azur) - Electricite de France - Societe Lyonnaise de Banque - Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Fran~ais - Union des Assurances de Paris. Both before and during the conference, Hs. Daniele Durieu, Martine Harciano, Magali Orillard and Catherine pivot managed to avoid an always imminent chaos. P. Batteau, C. Jameux, J.L. Le Hoigne and J. de Montgolfier helped intensively in the organizing committee. The preparation of the manuscript owes much to Daniele Durieu and Isabelle ~1ichelot. J .A. Bartoli was most helpful in com~uterizing the preparation of the general index. He also benefited in this last respect of the help of our students I. Bouchet, R. Bout, P. de Cibeins, S. Delaye, C. Mallie, C. Martin, J-F. Morhain, J-C. Picton, N. Vock, all at the Faculte d'Economie Appliquee in Aix-en-Provence.

Literature 1980, Part 1
Literature 1980, Part 1

Author: Siegfried Böhme

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 949

ISBN-13: 3662123223

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Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts, which has appeared in semi-annual volumes since 1969, is de voted to the recording, summarizing and indexing of astronomical publications throughout the world. It is prepared under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (according to a resolution adopted at the 14th General Assembly in 1970). Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts aims to present a comprehensive documentation of literature in all fields of astronomy and astrophysics. Every effort will be made to ensure that the average time interval between the date of receipt of the original literature and publication of the abstracts will not exceed eight months: This time interval is near to that achieved by monthly abstracting journals, com pared to which our system of accumulating abstracts for about six months offers the advantage of greater convenience for the user. I, 1980; some older Volume 27 contains literature published in 1980 and received before August literature which was received late and which is not recorded in earlier volumes is also included. We acknowledge with thanks contributions to this volume by Dr. J. Bouska, Prague, who surveyed journals and publications in Czech and supplied us with abstracts in English.

Engineering Reliability and Risk in Water Resources
Engineering Reliability and Risk in Water Resources

Author: L. Duckstein

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 9400935773

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Hydraulic, hydrologic and water resources engineers have been concerned for a long time about failure phenomena. One of the major concerns is the definition of a failure event E, of its probability of occurrence PtE), and of the complementary notion of reliability. However, as the stochastic aspects of hydraulics and water resources engineering were developed, words such as "failure," "reliability," and "risk" took on different meanings for different specialists. For example, "risk" is defined in a Bayesian framework as the expected loss resulting from a precisely defined failure event, while according to the practice of stochastic hydraulics it is the probability of occurrence of a failure event. The need to standardize the various concepts and operational definitions generated numerous exciting discussions between the co-editors of this book during 1983-84 when L. Duckstein, under sponsorship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (FRG), was working with E. Plate at the Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources of the University of Karlsruhe. After consulting with the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO, an organizing committee was formed. This comittee - J. Bernier (France), M. Benedini (Italy), S. Sorooshian (U. S. A. ), and co-directors L. Duckstein (U. S. A. ) and E. J. Plate (F. R. G. ) -- brought into being this NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI). Precisely stated, the purpose of this ASI was to present a tutorial overview of existing work in the broad area of reliability while also pointing out topics for further development.

Index to IEEE Publications
Index to IEEE Publications

Author: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 722

ISBN-13:

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Issues for 1973- cover the entire IEEE technical literature.