Probabilistic risk analysis aims to quantify the risk caused by high technology installations. Increasingly, such analyses are being applied to a wider class of systems in which problems such as lack of data, complexity of the systems, uncertainty about consequences, make a classical statistical...

In running our increasingly complex business systems, formal risk analyses andrisk management techniques are becoming a more important part of a manager'stool-kit. Moreover, it is also becoming apparent that human behaviour is often aroot or significant contributing cause of system failure. This...