Fuzzy risks and an updating algorithm with new observations

Chongfu Huang, Da Ruan, Benny Carlé

    Research outputpeer-review

    Abstract

    Concerning the essence of risk, we suggest a new definition of risk: a scene in the future associated with some adverse incident. In many cases, risks are rather fuzzy for our perception because of the shortage of knowledge or information about the systems that determine the adverse incidents. We introduce a concept of fuzzy risk based on the new risk definition and fuzzy sets. And, in this article, we suggest a fuzzy average algorithm to update a fuzzy risk that stores all information from the original data. To illustrate the algorithm, we update a soft risk map of flood where the fuzzy risks are calculated using the interior-outer-set model.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)681-694
    JournalRisk Analysis
    Volume28
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jun 2008

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