Applications of Fuzzy Modeling in Risk Management

Dear Colleagues,

Risk management has long been an important area of engineering, environmental and health research, but has become even more of a focus today due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic.   

Among the risk factors, quantitative and qualitative parameters can be observed as well, and these kinds of systems are full of uncertainty and subjectivity in the data and in evaluation process. The above characteristics justify the use of soft computation methods, especially fuzzy logic-based models.

In many cases, real-time risk management is required, where the short reaction time has vital importance. However, due to the large number of risk parameters and the complexity of their context result in the complexity of the model, which should be handled adequately. Consequently, for the application of different reduction techniques, anytime algorithms are essential. 

This Special Issue invites original contributions, new developments of classical results, and advanced topics of high potential for future research and applications in different field of risk management using fuzzy models.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Risk management and risk assessment in any field;
• Multicriteria decision making;
• Predictive models;
• Hybrid risk assessment or risk management models;
• Real-time risk assessment and management;
• Complexity reduction techniques in fuzzy models.

Dr. Edit Toth-Laufer
Prof. Dr. László Pokorádi
Guest Editors

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