The complexity of risks posed by climate change and possible adaptations for crop production has called for integrated assessment and modelling (IAM) approaches linking biophysical and economic models. This paper attempts to provide an overview of the present state of crop modelling to assess climate change risks to food production and to which extent crop models comply with IAM demands. Consid...

Standards for safety critical software usually either mandate or recommend development and assessment techniques which are deemed appropriate to reduce the risk of flaws in the software contributing to accidents. These recommendations are usually broken down into a number of “levels” of rigour, with the highest levels being applied where the consequences of failure, or risk, are most severe. Th...

The characterisation of uncertainty and risk analysis are two research domains that have many common elements. Specifically, they are both based on an acknowledgment that decisions are never made using perfect knowledge and therefore always have some degree of associated risk or uncertainty. Research in uncertainty addresses this by seeking to understand the causes of uncertainty, and to quanti...

This paper provides some new results on track fusion for radars. In particular, it provides a relationship between the accuracies of fused tracks for co-located and non co-located radar sensors. The uncertainty volume corresponding to the fused estimate is smaller than the volume of the intersection of the uncertainty ellipsoids associated to the individual sensors. In terms of uncertainty volu...

In the short life cycle era, many companies struggle to survive by increasing their product spectrum to gain more market share. For the pressure of such competitive environment coupled with the difficulty of forecast, the design of products tends to employ the concept of modularity and postponement strategy in supply chain management. In this study, a novel mathematical model with consideration...

Based on uncertainty management theory [Lind, E. A., & Van den Bos, K., (2002). When fairness works: Toward a general theory of uncertainty management. In Staw, B. M., & Kramer, R. M. (Eds.), Research in organizational behavior (Vol. 24, pp. 181–223). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.], two studies tested whether a management style depicting situational uncertainty moderates the relationship between ab...