The Use of Knowledge-Based Systems Techniques for Risk Assessment

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 13

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Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 13

SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium Abstracts

Several accidents during the last decade have emphasized the need to properly analyse and manage the low probability high consequence risks associated with plant operations in the nuclear, chemical and other industries. Formal risk assessment methods are vital tools for this task, and include a number of qualitative and quantitative techniques.