Safety and reliability are rigorously assessed during the design of dependable systems.
Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) processes are comprehensive, structured and logical …

This work investigates the evolution of traditional set theory to address complex and
ambiguous real-world phenomena. It introduces hierarchical hyperstructures and …

Soft Computing (SC) is defined as a group of computational techniques that solve complex
problems independent of mathematical models. SC techniques including artificial neural …

As in many other sectors, accidents that lead to deaths, injuries, environmental pollution, or
material damage occur in the maritime sector. Maritime transportation operations, which …

Remanufacturing process planning plays a key role in implementing remanufacturing
because it directly affects the remanufacturing cost as well as energy consumption and …

A risk matrix analysis framework is proposed for risk assessment and prioritization based on
potential risk influence (PRI). First, a new principle for risk level assignment considers the …

A number of fuzzy fault tree analysis approaches, which integrate fuzzy concepts into the
quantitative phase of conventional fault tree analysis, have been proposed to study …

Safety risk management is one of the important techniques to be performed in large
construction projects. The purpose of risk management is to identify the origin of the risks …

Real-time safety assessment (RTSA) of dynamic systems is a critical task that has significant
implications for various fields such as industrial and transportation applications, especially in …

Uncertainty analyses have been considered critical analysis methods for identifying the risks
in reliability evaluations. However, with multi-phase, multi-state, and repairable features, this …