..., 2018. Assoc. Editor: Athanasios Pantelous. 05 09 2017 20 03 2018 Energy Environmental Evidence theory Fuzzy Probability Sustainability Uncertainty Vague Energy-efficient building design merits special attention as the construction sector...

... received March 15, 2017; final manuscript received July 20, 2017; published online October 3, 2017. Assoc. Editor: James Lambert. 15 03 2017 20 07 2017 Fuzzy Probability Risk assessment Uncertainty Vague As per the statistics collected...

... Evidence theory Failure Fuzzy Reliability Risk Risk assessment Vague The reliability of hydroelectric turbines is a complex function, which depends mainly on: turbine age, cumulative damage, design data, loading cycles, periodic inspections, and material intrinsic properties. Based...

... Vague Safety is nowadays one of the key items of the overall management process in any organization [ 1 ]. In this context, in order to increase their safety conditions, companies constantly need to make decisions about risk, deciding whether a certain risk level is low enough or if risk...

... satisfying Eq. (3), which may be deduced from Eq. (6). Manuscript received July 12, 2015; final manuscript received March 9, 2016; published online August 19, 2016. Assoc. Editor: Athanasios Pantelous. 12 7 2015 9 3 2016 9 3 2016 Fuzzy Structures Uncertainty Vague...

... of frequency and growth rate 1 Corresponding author. Manuscript received October 23, 2014; final manuscript received March 9, 2015; published online November 20, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Alba Sofi. 23 10 2014 9 3 2015 28 04 2015 Fuzzy Mechanical Vague...

... multiple aspects of society, including social, political, economic, and cross-disciplinary factors [ 35–37 ]. This multifaceted interaction lends itself to partial knowledge and uncertainty in many forms, including information that is fuzzy, vague, ambiguous, incomplete, and imprecise or exhibits...

... but useful preliminary information through the calculation of accurate bounds on some key quantities, prior to the implementation of any probabilistic scheme. Fuzzy Mechanical Structures Vague The structural discretization is modeled within a scaled boundary finite element framework [ 11...

... online October 2, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Alba Sofi. 25 10 2014 4 2 2015 28 04 2015 02 10 2015 Aerospace Fuzzy Mechanical Random Vague The vibro-acoustic response of engineering structures is often sensitive to uncertainty in the system properties...

... Vague In the design phase of dynamical systems, constructive goals such as performance and accuracy are analyzed and optimized based on a nominal system, i.e., a system that is parameterized using a best guess of the parameter values. Commonly, the lack of knowledge and the idealizations during...

... 04 2015 02 10 2015 Fuzzy Structures Vague In the recent years, arbitrary-order (fractional) differential equations have been used to model various physical and engineering problems. It may be difficult to obtain the analytical solution of fractional differential equation, so...

... Acceptance Fuzzy Human reliability Tolerance Vague Due to innovation integration in early design phases, aside from previous project data, expert estimations are often used. In this work, we investigated how subjective uncertainty resulting from expert estimations influences the result of ASIT...

..., 2014; published online February 27, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Michael Beer. 5 9 2014 12 12 2014 16 12 2014 27 02 2015 Environmental Fuzzy Vague Ecodesign considerations during new product development (NPD) are necessary today to meet public expectation...