Vulnerability, uncertainty, and risk analysis, modeling and management
[Book]
proceedings of the first International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM 2011) and the fifth International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis (ISUMA 2011) : April 11-13, 2011, Hyattsville, Maryland /
sponsored by the Council on Disaster Risk Management (CDRM) of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; edited by Bilal M. Ayyub.
Reston, Va. :
American Society of Civil Engineers,
c2011.
1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Application of Evolutionary Computing to Disaster Restoration and Prevention Problems -- Quantitative Risk Analysis of Damage to Structures during Windstorms : Random Field and System Reliability Aspects -- Statistical Decisions with Random Fuzzy Data A Possibilistic Approach -- Statistical Inference under Two Structurally Different Approaches to Interval Data -- Independence in Generalized Interval Probability -- Embodied Knowledge of Gesture Motion Acquired by Singular Spectrum Analysis -- Fuzzy Probability in Engineering Analyses -- A Process for the Estimation of the Duration of Activities in Fuzzy Project Scheduling -- Uncertainty Arithmetic on Excel Spreadsheets : Add-In for Intervals, Probability Distributions and Probability Boxes -- Extended Uniform Distribution Accounting for Uncertainty of Uncertainty -- Efficiency Comparison of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation with Subset Simulation (MCMC/ss) to Standard Monte Carlo Simulation (sMC) for Extreme Event Scenarios -- Multi-Agent Simulation Considering the Influence of Leader during Flood Disaster -- Multi-Agent Simulation to Uncertain Civilian Return Trips during a Hypothetical Earthquake -- Statistical Characterization and Prediction of Sea Waves Based on Buoy Data -- Measuring Validity of Reasoning Process for Transportation Planning Using Bayesian Inference and Dempster-Shafer Theory -- A Simulation Framework for the Path Planning of Unmanned Autonomous Systems -- Development of Gap Acceptance Fuzzy Models Using Data from Driving Simulator Experiments -- Entropy Approach to Risk-Analysis of Critical Infrastructures Systems -- A Survey of Network Theoretic Approaches for Risk Analysis of Complex Infrastructure Systems -- Regional Social and Economic Risks as Conditions of Formation of Critical Infrastructures -- Decomposition Methods for Restoring Infrastructure Systems -- Strategic Planning for Power System Restoration -- Preparedness of Finnish Electricity Users against Major Disturbances in Supply of Electric Power -- Development of Spatial Risk Profiles of Cargo Rail Systems -- Probabilistic Study of Cascading Failures in Complex Interdependent Lifeline Systems -- Vulnerability Assessment of Infrastructure Networks by Using Hierarchical Decomposition Methods -- Sustainability : Complexity, Regulations and Decisions -- A Systems Approach to Vulnerability Assessment -- System Reliability Analysis of Fatigue-Induced Sequential Failure -- Sample Treatment of Uncertainties in Earthquake Portfolio Risk Analysis -- Probabilistic Application in Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Structures -- Options for the Treatment of Uncertainty in Seismic Probabilistic Safety Assessment of Nuclear Power Plants -- Seismic Investigation for the Temple of Antioch Reconstruction -- Multicriteria Optimization under Uncertainty : Average Criteria Method -- National-Level Infrastructure Risk Evaluation Framework and Best Practices -- Probabilistic Performance Risk Evaluation of Infrastructure Projects -- Optimal Planning of Public Works Using Improved Genetic Algorithm -- Quantitative Risk Assessment, Public Policy, and Decision-Making -- Research on the Establishment of Mega Public Building Safety Risk Assessment System in China -- A New Model of Supervision of Chinese Government over Building Safety : Based on the Third-Party Assessment Mechanism -- Development of Spatial Risk Profiles Resulting from Sea Level Rise -- Evaluating the Source of the Risks Associated with Natural Events -- Florida International University's Wall of Wind : A Tool for Improving Construction Materials and Methods for Hurricane-Prone Regions -- Risk Management of Long Term Infrastructure Projects "PPP-BOT Projects" by Using Uncertainty, Probabilistic and Stochastic Methods and Models -- Mixing Good Data with Bad : How to Do It and When You Should Not -- Study on the Method Selection for Building Safety Risk Assessment in China -- Decision-Making Model for Offshore Offloading Operations Based on Probabilistic Risk Assessment -- Preliminary Risk Analysis of a Liquefied Natural Gas Regasification System in an Offshore Unit -- Seismic Risk Assessment and Sensitivity Analysis in Terms of Life-Cycle Repair Cost -- Influence of Socio-Economic Consequences of World Economic Crisis on a Shadow Economy -- Classification and Moral Evaluation of Uncertainties in Engineering Modeling -- Making Urban Territories More Resilient to Flooding by Improving the Resilience of Their Waste Management Network A Methodology for Analysing Dysfunctions in Waste Management Networks during and after Flooding -- A Polynomial Chaos Approach for Uncertainty Analysis of Chloride-Induced Corrosion in Concrete Structures -- Method of Assessment of Human-Induced Area Risks and Creation of Risk Map Using Geoinformation Systems -- Closed-Form Approximation to Annual Failure Probabilities.
Use of Quantitative Risk Assessment in Structural Design -- Statistical Tools for Populating/Predicting Input Data of Risk Analysis Models -- Integrating Risk Management within the Project Delivery Process at Caltrans : A Transportation Project Case Study -- The Relationship between Hazards Vulnerability and Stage of Economic Development in Haiti and Chile -- Applying Heuristics to Civil Engineering -- Probabilistic and Optimization Considerations in Multihazard Engineering -- Asset Management of Structures Using Hybrid Structural Health Monitoring and Structural Uncertainty Analysis Procedure -- Structural Health Assessment Using Only Noise-Contaminated Responses -- Statistically Detecting Clustering for Rare Events -- A Bayesian Framework to Predict Deformations during Supported Excavations Based on a Semi-Empirical Method -- A Bayesian Network Approach for Identification of Critical Components of a System -- Damage Detection in Water Distribution Pipe Network Using Bayesian Framework and System Reliability Analysis -- Bayesian Network for Post-Earthquake Decision on Monitored Structures -- Risk-Based Framework for Stream Repair Projects -- Managing Climate Change Uncertainty in Water Supply Planning -- Improvements in Hurricane Surge Response Functions : Incorporating the Effects of Forward Speed, Approach Angle and Sea Level Rise -- A Comparison of Top-Down Statistical Models with Bottom-Up Methods for Power System Reliability Estimation in High Wind Events -- Classification of Current Building Stock for Hurricane Risk Analysis -- Probabilistic Hurricane Surge Risk Estimation through High-Fidelity Numerical Simulation and Response Surface Approximations -- Wind Vulnerability Curves for Low-Rise Commercial-Residential Buildings in the Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model -- Database-Assisted Design : Why and How? -- Probabilistic Demand Models and Fragility Estimates for Offshore Wind Turbine Support Structures -- The Use of Aerodynamic and Wind Climatological Databases for High-Rise Reinforced Concrete Structure Design -- Development of Large Directional Wind Speed Databases -- Dynamic Displacement Analysis of a Shallow Landslide in Norwood Tuff -- Intra- and Inter-Event Uncertainties of Ground Motion Attenuation Relations -- Effective Shear Strengths of Isotropic Spatially Variable Soil Masses -- Transportation Risk Analysis (TRA) of Bosphorus Suspended Bridge, Using Probabilistic Approach -- Effects of Spatial Variability of Soil Property on Slope Stability -- Interval Reliability Analysis for Gravity Retaining System of Deep Excavation -- Methodology for Risk Analysis of Ground Surface Subsidence -- A Methodology of Constructing Dynamic Risk Maps for Large Metropolitan Areas -- A Methodology to Produce Interdependent Networks Disturbance Scenarios -- Automated Security Risk Analysis Tool for USAF Installation Security -- Risk-Based Cost-Benefit Analysis for Security Assessment Problems -- Assessing Vulnerability to Floods of the Built Environment Integrating Urban Networks and Buildings -- Quantifying System Vulnerability as a Performance Measure for Systems Investment Evaluation and Decision-Making -- Resilience and Preparedness of Critical Infrastructures -- Development of Spatial Risk Profiles Resulting from Sea Level Rise : What Predictions of Future Sea Level Rise Mean for the Built Coast -- Defining and Assessing Vulnerability of Infrastructure to Terrorist Attack -- Integrating Flood Defence Fragility to Measure Built Environment Vulnerability A GIS Based Approach -- Many-Objective Risk-Based Planning within Complex Engineering Systems : An Urban Water Planning Example -- Risk Management of Asalouye Desalination Project -- Forecasting of Erosion and Debris Flow Processes for the Energy Supply and Transport Corridors of Georgia Using the Theory of Reliability and Risk -- Probabilistic Dominance Application to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta -- Capacity Planning under Nonstationary Uncertainties -- A Hybrid Approach of Uncertainty Analysis for Performance Measurement of Water Distribution System -- A New Approach of Risk Analysis for Complex Infrastructure Systems under Future Uncertainties : A Case of Urban Water Systems -- Toward Guidance for Identifying and Measuring Structural Damage Following a Blast Event -- Expected Building Damage Using Stratified Systematic Sampling of Failure Triggering Events -- Design of Supplemental Dampers for Seismic Risk Reduction of Isolated Bridges -- Evaluating the Efficiency of Current Nonlinear Static Pushover Procedures on Estimating Torsion Effect for Asymmetric High-Rise Buildings -- Analysis of Bridge Performance under the Combined Effect of Earthquake and Flood-Induced Scour -- Uncertainty Modeling in Bridge Network Maintenance Optimization -- Overcoming the Limitations of Traditional Model-Updating Approaches -- Reliability Analysis of Mooring Dolphin Structures -- Adaptive Reliability Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Bridges Using Nondestructive Testing -- Modeling Long-Term Reliability of Vertical Barriers -- Managing Biological Invasions under Severe Uncertainty : Light Brown Apple Moth in California -- Robust Conservation Decision-Making -- A New Approach of Decision Making under Uncertainty for Selecting a Robust Strategy : A Case of Water Pipes Failure -- Robust Satisficing and the Probability of Survival -- An Info-Gap Model to Examine the Robustness of Cost-Efficient Budget Allocations -- Info-Gap Approach to Regression -- Robust Resource Allocation : An Info-Gap Approach.
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Vulnerability, uncertainty, and risk analysis, modeling and management.
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Emergency management, Congresses.
Fuzzy systems, Congresses.
Hazard mitigation, Congresses.
Natural disasters-- Risk assessment, Congresses.
Public works-- Protection, Congresses.
Structural analysis (Engineering), Congresses.
Uncertainty-- Mathematical models, Congresses.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Structural.
Ayyub, Bilal M.
International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management(1st :2011 :, Hyattsville, Md.)
ASCE Council on Disaster Risk Management.
International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis(5th :2011 :, Hyattsville, Md.)