Abstract: Risk problems are treated in different ways in different disciplines and by different experts. Field experts’ knowledge has often been used in solving complex problems of risk from large-scale disasters. A storehouse of ...

Abstract: It is necessary to develop continually efficient methodologies and techniques for moderating risks to be within acceptable limits. After a brief background about risk analysis, a comprehensive view is presented about the ...

Abstract: Knowledge-based systems (KBS) are being widely used for risk analysis of structures. The KBS make use of various types of observations made during postdisaster damage surveys and also the expertise of various domain ...

Abstract: Building Bayesian networks (BNs) for problems of risk attributable to natural hazards is a complex problem. Risk analysis makes use of domain experts’ knowledge, which is an essential element of input for the analysis. ...