The sources and characterization of uncertainties in engineering modeling for risk and reliability analyses are discussed. While many sources of uncertainty may exist, they are generally categorized as either aleatory or epistemic. Uncertainties are characterized as epistemic, if the modeler sees a possibility to reduce them by gathering more data or by refining models. Uncertainties are catego...

This paper deals with a short overview on stochastic modeling of uncertainties. We introduce the types of uncertainties, the variability of real systems, the types of probabilistic approaches, the representations for the stochastic models of uncertainties, the construction of the stochastic models using the maximum entropy principle, the propagation of uncertainties, the methods to solve the st...