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Risk Assessment and Management in a Multiobjective Framework

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Two objectives have been set forth for this paper. The first objective is to present the risk assessment and management process within a multiobjective framework. The second objective is to provide a literature overview of risk assessment and management.

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  1. Systems Engineering Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, USA

    Yacov Y. Haimes

  2. Federal Systems Division, IBM Corporation, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20879, USA

    Mark R. Leach

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Haimes, Y.Y., Leach, M.R. (1985). Risk Assessment and Management in a Multiobjective Framework. In: Haimes, Y.Y., Chankong, V. (eds) Decision Making with Multiple Objectives. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 242. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46536-9_2

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