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Scenario Logic and Probabilistic Management of Risk in Business and Engineering

Book information

Publisher
Springer US
Year
2009
ISBN
9780387779454, 0387779450
DOI
10.1007/978-0-387-77946-1
LCC
HD31 .S6127 2009
Open Library ID
OL24378859M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4099447 bytes)
Series
Springer Optimization and Its Applications 20
Edition
2
Pages
450\462
Topic
Business Management
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The book proposes a uniform logic and probabilistic (LP) approach to risk estimation and analysis in engineering and economics. It covers the methodological and theoretical basis of risk management at the design, test, and operation stages of economic, banking, and engineering systems with groups of incompatible events (GIE). It considers the risk LP-models in classification, investment, management of companies, bribes and corruption, analysis of risk and efficiency of social and economical processes, and management of development. Key features of this Second Edition: -Five new chapters -Treatment of the basic principles of the modern risk LP theory (the LP-calculus, the LP-methods and the risk LP-theory with GIE) using uniform methodology and terminology with a practical orientation towards both engineering and economics, for the first time in book form -Clear definitions and notations, revised sections and chapters, an extended list of references, and a new subject index -More than a hundred illustrations and tables which motivate the presentation Specialists in risk management in economics, banking and business, as well as graduates and post-graduates in economics and engineering, will benefit from this book.

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