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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"evidential reasoning"”.
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REIMAGINING TECHNOLOGY PREPARATION FOR PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS: EXPLORING HOW THE USE OF A VIDEO SELF-ANALYSIS INSTRUCTIONAL COMPONENT, BASED ON THE EVIDENTIAL REASONING AND DECISION SUPPORT MODEL, IMPACTS PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ TECHNOLOGICAL PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE
… instructional component, based on the evidential reasoning and decision support model (ERDS), impacts pre-service teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). Using the explanatory sequential mixed methods design, the researcher first collected quantitative data. The …
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Diagnosing runtime violations of security and dependability properties
… is based on a combination of abductive and evidential reasoning about violations of S&D properties which are expressed in Event Calculus.
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Decision Making Analysis for an Integrated Risk Management Framework of Maritime Container Port Infrastructure and Transportation Systems
… generic risk-based model incorporating FRBN and Evidential Reasoning to form an FRBER method using the Intelligence Decision System (IDS) software to evaluate all HEs aggregated collectively for their Risk Influence (RI) globally with a case study demonstration. In addition, a new sensitivity …
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Enabling security and risk-based operation of container line supply chains under high uncertainties
… firstly, this research makes full use of the Evidential Reasoning (ER) advantages and further develops and extends the Fuzzy Evidential Reasoning (FER) by exploiting a conceptual and sound methodology for the assessment of a seafarer's reliability. Accordingly, control options to enhance …
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Application of formal safety assessment for ship hull vibration modelling
… Then risk estimation bn is carried out utilising Evidential Reasoning (ER) and a fuzzy rule base.Secondly, ship selection (decision making) is investigated to to select the best ship design based on the risk estimation results of SHV. The risk estimation is carried out using ER, a fuzzy rule base …
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Integrative risk-based assessment modelling of safety-critical marine and offshore applications
… FL model incorporating fuzzy set theory and an evidential reasoning synthesis has been demonstrated on the FPSO-shuttle tanker collision scenario. The FL and BN models have been combined via mass assignment theory into a fuzzy-Bayesian network (FBN) in which the advantages of both are …
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MEASUREMENT, MODELLING AND ANALYSIS OF CONTAINER PORT PERFORMANCE
… Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Logic based Evidential Reasoning (FER) for solving multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problems is applied to address the challenges in port performance measurement. AHP is applied for a part of the FER to evaluate the relative importance of the selected …
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Development of an Efficient Planned Maintenance Framework for Marine and Offshore Machinery Operating under Highly Uncertain Environment
… Firstly, this study makes full use of evidential reasoning’s advantage to propose a novel fuzzy evidential reasoning sensitivity analysis method (FER-SAM) to facilitate the assessment of operational uncertainties (trend analysis, family analysis, environmental analysis, design analysis, …
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Formal safety assessment of marine applications
… safety case concepts. Bayesian network (BN) and evidential reasoning (ER) approaches applicable to cargo handling engineering systems have been proposed for systematically and effectively addressing uncertainty due to randomness and vagueness in data respectively. ER test cases for both a vessel …
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FSA Based Analysis of Deck Officers’ Non-Technical Skills in Crisis Situations
… NTS performances are calculated by the ER (Evidential Reasoning) Algorithm and are compared to see if there are any improvements in the NTS performance with the HELM training. After comparison it was found that NTS performance of the groups with HELM training was only 0.8% better than the …
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APPLICATION OF FORMAL SAFETY ASSESSMENT FOR DRY DOCKING EVOLUTION
… study identified. Thirdly, fuzzy rule base and evidential reasoning approaches are used for risk estimation in terms of three risk parameters to select the major causes of component failure that can lead to pontoon deck failure in a floating dock. Possible risk control options (RCOs) are …
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Risk Assessment and Management of Petroleum Transportation Systems Operations
… In the second phase, a Fuzzy Rule-Based Bayesian Reasoning (FRBBR) and Hugin software are applied in the new context of PTSs to assess and prioritise the local PTSs failures as one complete system. The third phase uses Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in order to determine the weight of PTSs local …
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ADVANCED RISK MANAGEMENT OF AN ARCTIC MARINE SEISMIC SURVEY OPERATION
… of the Ship-Ice Collision model dovetailing the Evidential Reasoning (ER) technique and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) with the FRBN. A trial application of the global safety performance of the Ship-Ice Collision case in a prospect oil field is carried out to determine the safety level of …
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Advanced risk management in offshore terminals and marine ports
… model incorporating Fuzzy Set Theory (FST), an Evidential Reasoning (ER) approach and the IDS software were used to evaluate the risk levels of different ports in real situations using a case study. The IDS software based on an ER approach was used to aggregate the previously determined relative …
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Advanced risk and maintenance modelling in LNG carrier operations
… such as Genetic Algorithm (GA), fuzzy logic and Evidential Reasoning (ER) for risk/safety assessment and maintenance modelling of LNG carrier operations. These advanced computational techniques can help to overcome challenges posed by uncertainties associated with the LNG carrier operations. …
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Quantitative human reliability assessment in Marine Engineering Operations
… third phase, the uncertainty treatment method's Evidential Reasoning (ER) is used in correlation with the second phase's developed new models and techniques to produce the solutions to conducting quantitative HRA in conditions in which data is unavailable, incomplete or ill-defined. In the fourth …
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Technical management of vlcc/vlbc hull structures based on safety case principles
… framework The core of the method is the new evidential reasoning (ER) algorithm developed on the basis of a MCDA evaluation framework and the evidence combination rule of the Dempster-Shafer (D-S) Theory. A number of structural design options focused on the cargo tank mid body area of a …
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RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF MARINE PILOTS USING ADVANCED DECISION MAKING METHODS
… this research, the researcher employed a fuzzy evidential reasoning (FER) for solving multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems in conjunction with the aforementioned approaches to empirically assess the reliability of a marine pilot. The application of FER helps manage uncertainties …
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Advanced Safety Methodology for Risk Management of Petroleum Refinery Operations
… Linguistic Preference Relation (FLPR), Fuzzy Evidential Reasoning (FER) and Fuzzy Bayesian Network (FBN) methodologies were proposed and implemented to evaluate the criticality of the risk elements and their attributes and to analyse the risk level of PRPU operations. Also, AHP-fuzzy VIKOR …
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Analytical Quality Control in Shipping Operation Using Six Sigma Principles
… Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Bayesian Reasoning (FBR) approaches to increase the accuracy of failure identification while not compromising the easiness and visibility of the Risk Priority Number (RPN) method. Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) and Analytical …
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