Beyond informed choice: Prenatal risk assessment, decision-making and trust

Risk informed decision-making and its ethical basis

In decision-making under uncertainty there are two main questions that need to be evaluated: (i) What are the future consequences and associated uncertainties of an action, and (ii) what is a good (or right) decision or action. Philosophically these issues are categorized as epistemic questions (i.e. questions of knowledge) and ethical questions (i.e. questions of moral and norms). This paper d...

Trust assessment and decision-making in dynamic multi-agent systems

The concept of trust in multi-agent systems (MASs) has received significant attention in recent years, and a number of approaches have been proposed to enable agents to form, maintain and use trust relationships in their dealings with others. However, current approaches do not adequately address highly dynamic multi-agent systems, where the population and structure changes frequently. For examp...

A Proposed Risk-informed Decision-making Framework for Nasa

The January 2004 Presidential Directive to NASA to adopt a goal-oriented space exploration program poses many challenges. These include sustained and affordable human and robotic space programs to explore the Solar System starting with a human return to the Moon and subsequent human exploration of Mars. Meeting the exploration technical and safety goals while meeting programmatic constraints re...

Elements of Risk Informed Decision Making in Belgium

In Belgium, basically, a deterministic approach to nuclear safety is applied. However, plantspecific PSA studies are performed and updated in the framework of the Periodic Safety Reviews (PSR). This process has led to a number of modifications to safety equipment and operating practices. Occasionally, PSA staff of AVN is requested to provide risk information regarding plant modifications, plant...

Risk-informed decision-making in the presence of epistemic uncertainty