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Dependable Handling of Uncertainty

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Uncertainty quantification is an important approach to modeling in the presence of limited information about uncertain quantities. As a result recent years have witnessed a burgeoning body of work in this field. The present paper gives some background, highlights some recent work, and presents some problems and challenges.

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Berleant, D., Cheong, MP., Chu, C. et al. Dependable Handling of Uncertainty. Reliable Computing 9, 407–418 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025888503247

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