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

Trust is an important aspect of mobile adhoc networks (MANETs). It enables entities to cope
with uncertainty and uncontrollability caused by the free will of others. Trust computations …

Aggregation is the process of combining several numerical values into a single
representative value, and an aggregation function performs this operation. These functions …

Mooring is a technique to anchor the ship to a fixed or drifting component and make it
associated while loading and unloading operations are in process. In the risk assessment of …

Aggregation (fusion) of several input values into a single output value is an indispensable
tool not only of mathematics or physics, but of majority of engineering, economical, social …

Fuzzy Bayesian network (FBN) has been widely used for risk assessment of accidents in
process industries to deal with complex causality and uncertainty arising from complex …

Lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) has rapidly developed and widely applied
due to its high energy density and high flexibility. However, the frequent occurrence of fire …

Risk assessment (RA) plays a vital role in safety engineering. The conventional RA
approaches have limited capabilities in handling time dependence and data uncertainty …

Sustainability has become a necessity, partly due to the threats created by traditional
manufacturing practices, and due to regulations imposed by stakeholders. Performance …

Aggregation operators consist of mathematical functions that enable the combining and
processing of different types of information. The aim of this work is to present the main …