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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,940 Views
19 Pages

In open environments, multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) often suffers from low-quality data and can be disrupted by noise, inherent defects, and outliers. In some cases, unreasonable multimodal fusion methods can perform worse than unimodal methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,289 Views
16 Pages

26 January 2018

An uncertainty analysis is required to be carried out in formal safety assessment (FSA) by the International Maritime Organization. The purpose of this article is to introduce the uncertainty analysis technique into the FSA process. Based on the unce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,884 Views
23 Pages

15 March 2023

A discharge uncertainty envelope is presented that provides an observation error model for data assimilation (DA) using discharge observations derived from measurement of stage using a rating curve. It uniquely represents the rating curve representat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,906 Views
15 Pages

6 March 2024

Uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis are essential for improving the modeling and estimation of greenhouse gas emissions in livestock farming to evaluate and reduce the impact of uncertainty in input parameters to model output. The pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,201 Views
17 Pages

Uncertainty Analysis for Data-Driven Chance-Constrained Optimization

  • Bartolomeus Häussling Löwgren,
  • Joris Weigert,
  • Erik Esche and
  • Jens-Uwe Repke

20 March 2020

In this contribution our developed framework for data-driven chance-constrained optimization is extended with an uncertainty analysis module. The module quantifies uncertainty in output variables of rigorous simulations. It chooses the most accurate...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,482 Views
8 Pages

Improving Experimental Design through Uncertainty Analysis

  • Ian M. Hobbs,
  • Joey A. Charboneau and
  • Todd L. Jacobsen

28 June 2023

In this paper, the development of a fission-gas collecting and physical-analysis-enabling instrument was proposed for small-volume determination. Analysis specifications require a design capable of accurately and repeatably determining volumes in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,146 Views
14 Pages

An Uncertainty Modeling Framework for Intracardiac Electrogram Analysis

  • Amirhossein Koneshloo,
  • Dongping Du and
  • Yuncheng Du

Intracardiac electrograms (EGMs) are electrical signals measured within the chambers of the heart, which can be used to locate abnormal cardiac tissue and guide catheter ablations to treat cardiac arrhythmias. EGMs may contain large amounts of uncert...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
6,542 Views
15 Pages

A Method to Facilitate Uncertainty Analysis in LCAs of Buildings

  • Francesco Pomponi,
  • Bernardino D’Amico and
  • Alice M. Moncaster

13 April 2017

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is increasingly becoming a common technique to assess the embodied energy and carbon of buildings and their components over their life cycle. However, the vast majority of existing LCAs result in very definite, determinist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,151 Views
25 Pages

24 April 2025

To provide reliable safety margins in reactor design and safety analysis, the best estimate plus uncertainty (BEPU) analysis, which is recommended by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has drawn increasing attention worldwide. In order to...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,476 Views
25 Pages

16 July 2024

There is uncertainty in the results of any mathematical model due to different reasons. It is important to estimate this uncertainty. Sensitivity analysis is commonly used to estimate how the changes in the input parameters affect the solutions of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
10,444 Views
19 Pages

14 February 2017

The most common and cheap indirect technique to measure relative humidity is by using psychrometer based on a dry and a wet temperature sensor. In this study, the measurement uncertainty of relative humidity was evaluated by this indirect method with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,497 Views
24 Pages

30 June 2019

Various uncertainty analysis methods have been used in various studies to analyze the uncertainty of rainfall-runoff models; however, these methods are difficult to apply immediately as they require a long learning time. In this study, we propose a s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,492 Views
14 Pages

Uncertainty Analysis and Maneuver Simulation of Standard Ship Model

  • Hui Li,
  • Nan Zhao,
  • Jian Zhou,
  • Xiangyu Chen and
  • Chenxu Wang

Maneuver simulation of a standard ship model gives indication of numerical accuracy. In the numerical calculation of ship maneuvering, uncertainty analysis is a necessary step to ensure the accuracy of the calculation. In this study, uncertainty pair...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,870 Views
14 Pages

Uncertainty Analysis and Improvement of Propellant Gauging System Applied in Space

  • Yanjie Yang,
  • Wei Han,
  • Yiyong Huang,
  • Xiang Zhang and
  • Hao Huang

9 October 2022

Propellant Gauging is of vital importance to a spacecraft at the end of its life. Based on the Monte Carlo Method, uncertainty analysis and the improvement of propellant gauging using gas injection have been studied. As a result of the analysis, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,929 Views
27 Pages

20 May 2022

The uncertainty analysis of attitude estimates enables the comparison between different methods, and, thus, it is important for practical applications. This work studies the uncertainty for the attitude determination of a three-vehicle constrained fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,342 Views
14 Pages

Random/Cognitive Hybrid Uncertainty Analysis of Ship Multitasking Cabin Layout

  • Haijun Xu,
  • Yuanhang Hou,
  • Haonan Li,
  • Meng Bao and
  • Haishang Liu

Identifying the optimal cabin layout is an important way to improve the efficiency of ship systems and ensure the efficient circulation of personnel and materials. The ship task state refers to the state maintained by the joint actions of ship machin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,013 Views
19 Pages

Uncertainty Analysis of a Two-Dimensional Hydraulic Model

  • Khalid Oubennaceur,
  • Karem Chokmani,
  • Miroslav Nastev,
  • Marion Tanguy and
  • Sebastien Raymond

4 March 2018

A reliability approach referred to as the point estimate method (PEM) is presented to assess the uncertainty of a two-dimensional hydraulic model. PEM is a special case of numerical quadrature based on orthogonal polynomials, which evaluates the stat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,346 Views
21 Pages

Scenario Analysis of Offshore Wind-Power Systems under Uncertainty

  • Antonio Casimiro Caputo,
  • Alessandro Federici,
  • Pacifico Marcello Pelagagge and
  • Paolo Salini

17 December 2023

Wind-energy systems are strongly affected by uncertainty and variability. Therefore, uncertainty sources should be considered during the economic evaluation of this type of system. In the literature, a framework for the economic performance assessmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,272 Views
24 Pages

Uncertainty Analysis for Topographic Correction of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Images

  • Zhaoning Ma,
  • Guorui Jia,
  • Michael E. Schaepman and
  • Huijie Zhao

21 February 2020

Quantitative uncertainty analysis is generally taken as an indispensable step in the calibration of a remote sensor. A full uncertainty propagation chain has not been established to set up the metrological traceability for surface reflectance inverse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,464 Views
20 Pages

31 July 2020

Different kinds of power quality can be sensed in a smart substation. Power quality sensing and analysis are basic functions of a smart substation for situation awareness. The uncertainty principle, which states that the time uncertainty and frequenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,008 Views
29 Pages

A Novel Multi-Sensor Fusion Algorithm Based on Uncertainty Analysis

  • Haobai Xue,
  • Maomao Zhang,
  • Peining Yu,
  • Haifeng Zhang,
  • Guozhu Wu,
  • Yi Li and
  • Xiangyuan Zheng

12 April 2021

During the research and development of multiphase flowmeters, errors are often used to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of different devices and algorithms, whilst an in-depth uncertainty analysis is seldom carried out. However, limited info...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
15,093 Views
22 Pages

22 April 2013

The quantification and analysis of uncertainties is important in all cases where maps and models of uncertain properties are the basis for further decisions. Once these uncertainties are identified, the logical next step is to determine how they can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,201 Views
16 Pages

30 January 2022

This paper consists of evaluating the performance of a vibro-acoustic model in the presence of uncertainties in the geometric and material parameters of the model using Monte Carlo simulations (MCS). The purpose of using a meta-model is to reduce the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,321 Views
13 Pages

23 December 2022

In order to explore the hydrogen source term characteristics under severe accidents of marine pressurized water reactors (PWR) and effectively assess the hydrogen risk, the best estimation program SCDAP/RELAP5/MOD3.2 is used to establish the marine r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,097 Views
12 Pages

3 May 2018

Uncertainty analysis is considered to be a necessary step in the process of vessel traffic risk assessment. The purpose of this study is to propose the uncertainty analysis algorithm which can be used to investigate the reliability of the risk assess...

  • Review
  • Open Access
304 Citations
26,224 Views
24 Pages

Global Land Cover Mapping: A Review and Uncertainty Analysis

  • Russell G. Congalton,
  • Jianyu Gu,
  • Kamini Yadav,
  • Prasad Thenkabail and
  • Mutlu Ozdogan

3 December 2014

Given the advances in remotely sensed imagery and associated technologies, several global land cover maps have been produced in recent times including IGBP DISCover, UMD Land Cover, Global Land Cover 2000 and GlobCover 2009. However, the utility of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
220 Views
15 Pages

Dynamic Carbon Emissions Accounting and Uncertainty Analysis for Industrial Parks

  • Yumin Chen,
  • Xiao Shao,
  • Yukun Guo,
  • Xiangxi Duan,
  • Hongli Liu,
  • Chao Yang,
  • Li Jiang,
  • Yang Wei and
  • Qian Li

26 January 2026

Under the “dual carbon” strategy and green energy transition, traditional static accounting models have coarse temporal granularity. These models cannot meet the needs of fine-grained management and dynamic control for industrial parks. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,709 Views
24 Pages

Uncertainty Analysis of a 1D River Hydraulic Model with Adaptive Calibration

  • Mohammed Amine Bessar,
  • Pascal Matte and
  • François Anctil

18 February 2020

Water level modeling is a critical component of flood warning systems. A high-quality forecast requires the development of a hydraulic model that reliably accounts for the main sources of uncertainty. In this paper, a 1D hydraulic model with adaptive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,352 Views
16 Pages

A Posteriori Analysis of Analytical Models for Heap Leaching Using Uncertainty and Global Sensitivity Analyses

  • Mario E. Mellado,
  • Luis A. Cisternas,
  • Freddy A. Lucay,
  • Edelmira D. Gálvez and
  • Felipe D. Sepúlveda

26 January 2018

The heap leaching of minerals is one of the more commonly used processes in the mining industry. This process has been modeled by many authors. However, the validation, verification, and implementation of these models are difficult since there is unc...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,239 Views
18 Pages

Design and Uncertainty Analysis of an AC Loss Measuring Instrument for Superconducting Magnets

  • Pasquale Arpaia,
  • Davide Cuneo,
  • Ernesto De Matteis,
  • Antonio Esposito and
  • Pedro Ramos

A novel instrument was designed and numerically validated for measuring AC losses in ramped superconducting magnets. These power losses are expected to be in the 1 W to 100 W range. The instrument improves metrological performance compared to existin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,632 Views
17 Pages

Numerical Simulation and Uncertainty Analysis of an Axial-Flow Waterjet Pump

  • Ji-Tao Qiu,
  • Chen-Jun Yang,
  • Xiao-Qian Dong,
  • Zong-Long Wang,
  • Wei Li and
  • Francis Noblesse

Unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes simulations of an axial-flow pump for waterjet propulsion are carried out at model scale, and the numerical uncertainties are analyzed mainly according to the procedure recommended by the twenty-eighth I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,747 Views
16 Pages

A Visual Analysis Method for Predicting Material Properties Based on Uncertainty

  • Qikai Chu,
  • Lingli Zhang,
  • Zhouqiao He,
  • Yadong Wu and
  • Weihan Zhang

8 April 2023

The traditional way of studying fluorinated materials by adjusting parameters throughout multiple trials can no longer meet the needs of the processing and analysis of multi-source, heterogeneous, and numerous complex data. Due to the high confidenti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,741 Views
22 Pages

26 September 2022

Researchers have long been interested in developing new economic assessment methods to provide credible information and facilitate the sustainable development of new technologies and products. The techno-economic analysis (TEA) and the life cycle cos...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,985 Views
22 Pages

Uncertainty Analysis of Multi-Model Flood Forecasts

  • Erich J. Plate and
  • Khurram M. Shahzad

1 December 2015

This paper demonstrates, by means of a systematic uncertainty analysis, that the use of outputs from more than one model can significantly improve conditional forecasts of discharges or water stages, provided the models are structurally different. Di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
385 Views
18 Pages

Uncertainty Quantification and Sensitivity Analysis of Nuclear Construction Cost Reduction Pathways

  • Rowan Marchie,
  • Ryan M. Spangler,
  • Levi M. Larsen,
  • Chandrakanth Bolisetti,
  • Botros Hanna,
  • Jia Zhou and
  • Abdalla Abou-Jaoude

3 February 2026

High construction costs have plagued recent nuclear projects and they hamper the widespread deployment of nuclear technology. The Nuclear Cost Reduction Tool is a plant economic framework that quantifies the impact that various plant design and const...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,233 Views
18 Pages

Uncertainty Analysis of Ultimate Strength for Spherical Shells Subjected to External Pressure

  • Ming Zhan,
  • Chao Ding,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Lingtong Zheng and
  • Lihui Wang

6 March 2023

To evaluate the stochastic characteristics of ultimate strength for spherical shells subjected to external pressure, uncertainty analysis is conducted in this study. Experimental measurements and result analysis of dimensions, as well as ultimate str...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,982 Views
36 Pages

Research on Uncertainty of Landslide Susceptibility Prediction—Bibliometrics and Knowledge Graph Analysis

  • Zhengli Yang,
  • Chao Liu,
  • Ruihua Nie,
  • Wanchang Zhang,
  • Leili Zhang,
  • Zhijie Zhang,
  • Weile Li,
  • Gang Liu,
  • Xiaoai Dai and
  • Heng Lu
  • + 5 authors

10 August 2022

Landslide prediction is one of the complicated topics recognized by the global scientific community. The research on landslide susceptibility prediction is vitally important to mitigate and prevent landslide disasters. The instability and complexity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,125 Views
12 Pages

9 July 2010

A fiber grating sensor capable of distinguishing between temperature and strain, using a reference and a dual-wavelength fiber Bragg grating, is presented. Error analysis and measurement uncertainty for this sensor are studied theoretically and exper...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,593 Views
8 Pages

Accurate quantile estimation of extreme precipitation is crucial for hydraulic infrastructure design but is often hindered by limited data records, leading to uncertainties. This study applies regional frequency analysis (RFA) using L-moments, compar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,126 Views
17 Pages

19 September 2014

Analysis of land cover change is one of the major challenges in the remote sensing and GIS domain, especially when multi-temporal or multi-sensor analyses are conducted. One of the reasons is that errors and inaccuracies from multiple datasets (for i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,495 Views
13 Pages

27 January 2019

With the rapid development of industry, problems for the ecological environment are increasing day by day, among which carbon pollution is particularly serious. Product carbon emission accounting is the core of sustainable green design. In this paper...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
13,637 Views
45 Pages

31 May 2023

In recent years, there have been frequent cases of impact on the stable development of supply chain economy caused by uncertain events such as COVID-19 and extreme weather events. The creation, management, and impact coping techniques of the supply c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,835 Views
21 Pages

Uncertainty Analysis of 3D Line Reconstruction in a New Minimal Spatial Line Representation

  • Hang Zhou,
  • Keju Peng,
  • Dongxiang Zhou,
  • Weihong Fan and
  • Yunhui Liu

6 February 2020

Line segments are common in urban scenes and contain rich structural information. However, different from point-based reconstruction, reconstructed 3D lines may have large displacement from the ground truth in spite of a very small sum of reprojectio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
780 Views
24 Pages

Uncertainty-Driven Reliability Analysis Using Importance Measures and Risk Priority Numbers

  • Maria Valentina Clavijo,
  • Fernando Guevara Carazas,
  • Juan David Arango Castrillón and
  • Carmen Elena Patino-Rodriguez

7 November 2025

Uncertainty is a key factor in the reliability assessment of complex engineering systems, especially when they operate under variable conditions that affect component degradation. This study presents a framework for the systematic and uncertainty-bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,778 Views
15 Pages

23 February 2025

To analyze the impact of capacity uncertainty on the seismic collapse fragility of reinforced concrete (RC) frame structures, a fragility analysis framework based on seismic reliability methods is proposed. First, incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,120 Views
15 Pages

5 April 2019

Entrained flow gasification is a commonly used method for conversion of coal into syngas. A stable and efficient operation of entrained flow coal gasification is always desired to reduce consumption of raw materials and utilities, and achieve higher...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,647 Views
17 Pages

8 March 2024

Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is a promising technology for reducing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. It is critical to estimate the CO2 storage resource before deploying the CCS projects. The CO2 storage resource is limited by both the form...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,321 Views
16 Pages

Heterogenic Solid Biofuel Sampling Methodology and Uncertainty Associated with Prompt Analysis

  • Jose A. Pazó,
  • Enrique Granada,
  • Ángeles Saavedra,
  • David Patiño and
  • Joaquín Collazo

11 May 2010

Accurate determination of the properties of biomass is of particular interest in studies on biomass combustion or cofiring. The aim of this paper is to develop a methodology for prompt analysis of heterogeneous solid fuels with an acceptable degree o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,294 Views
18 Pages

26 February 2021

This study analysed the uncertainty and sensitivity of core and intermediate input variables of a remote-sensing-data-based Penman–Monteith (PM-Mu) evapotranspiration (ET) model. We derived absolute and relative uncertainties of core measured meteoro...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
6,543 Views
21 Pages

Uncertainty Analysis of SWAT Modeling in the Lancang River Basin Using Four Different Algorithms

  • Xiongpeng Tang,
  • Jianyun Zhang,
  • Guoqing Wang,
  • Junliang Jin,
  • Cuishan Liu,
  • Yanli Liu,
  • Ruimin He and
  • Zhenxin Bao

29 January 2021

The hydrological model is the primary tool for regional water resources management, allocation, and prediction. However, these models always suffer from large uncertainties from multiple sources. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct an uncertainty a...

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