How to fight Climate Change ?

The demands of a changing climate are starting to affect how many businesses operate, from attempting to tamp down their carbon emissions and ramp up energy efficiency, to adjusting to new risks...

16 January 2020 5,260 11 View

Would you rather be a happy farmer or a miserable millionaire ?

This can happen without making millionaires or peasants unhappy.

12 April 2019 7,812 21 View

How to determine measurement uncertainty of a mass balance?

Hi everyone, I work at a factory plant where they use a mass balance. The problem is that there is an huge difference between the input and output of one element. There are several people working...

10 February 2021 5,764 3 View

How can I multiply values with standard distribution and with triangular distribution?

I am calculating emissions considering the uncertainty of the data to do Monte Carlo simulation. Some variables such as yields have normal, lognormal or even uniform distributions. These must be...

03 February 2021 6,318 5 View

How to prove possibility/impossibility to analytically solve the functional equation f(a ln x^2)/f(x)=x/2a; and how to find out the solution?

This is my very first encounter with functional equation of this kind, and methods of series solution and differential equations are of not much help. The solution to this problem, or at least the...

25 January 2021 6,053 5 View

How are sensor input output equations found and the uncertainty in measurement?

My question is on how the input/output equations for sensors are found, for example a pressure sensor which relates force [N] to resistance [ohms]. Would this equation be found by measuring...

11 January 2021 1,482 4 View

Relativity is actually an uncertainty.?

04 January 2021 718 3 View

Any good conferences on uncertainty and sensitivity analysis?

Hi everyone, I was wondering if there are any good yearly generic or field-specific conferences on topics of sensitivity and uncertainty analysis. Thanks! Shahroz

14 December 2020 9,347 5 View

How do you define Uncertainty in an Economic Decision Model?

How do you define uncertainty in an economic decision model? With this mathematical approach in mind, how should you make decisions?

05 December 2020 4,371 11 View

How to set a threshold to identify uncertain and sensitive parameters?

Hi everyone, I am performing Sobol's sensitivity analysis and wondering if there is a way to set a threshold on sensitivity index so that parameters with a sensitivity index greater than the...

09 November 2020 2,093 1 View

Difference between Data-Driven Adaptive Robust Optimization and Adaptive Robust Optimization?

Could you make some points about the difference between Data-Driven Adaptive Robust Optimization and (classic) Adaptive Robust Optimization?

01 November 2020 9,653 3 View

How to find Lyapunov Exponent for a non-linear time series in R/Python?

I am working on a project where I am using chaos theory to check if chaos is there in non-linear time series and use it for a neural network model. We need two parameters for finding chaos (using...

29 October 2020 3,289 3 View