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Taming entropy: designing, evaluating and applying decision-support systems for risk management in industrial and non-industrial settings
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After being assigned a process fire investigation in my second year of professional practice, and later working in maintenance leadership following multiple fatality incidents, I wondered why process safety outcomes did not seem to be improving despite constant discussion and an incredible pace...
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Risk Management for Tailings Dam Safety: Considerations for Long-term and Post-closure Timelines
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Post-closure tailings dams are expected to remain on mine sites in perpetuity following mine closure. Combined with the lack of knowledge regarding how tailings dams will evolve over time, these long-time frames necessitate the development of risk management practices. The purpose of this...
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Fall 2022
Limited understanding of the complex subsurface brings uncertainty and risk of production shortfalls in the oilfield development. Geostatistics provides tools to model the geological uncertainty that occurs in reservoir decision making. The common decision criterion under uncertainty is to find...
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Fall 2021
Wind energy is emerging as a primary source of renewable energy in Canada, attracting over $23 billion in investment. Steadily increasing, a total capacity of 31,640 MW of wind energy must be installed by 2040 to meet the requirements of the Paris Agreement on Climate, requiring the construction...
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Determining Project Contingency Reserve Using a Fuzzy Arithmetic-Based Risk Analysis Method
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Fateminia, Seyed Hamed, Siraj, Nasir Bedewi, Fayek, Aminah Robinson, Johnston, Andrew
Traditional techniques for estimating contingency reserve fail to capture subjective uncertainties and expert knowledge, and they rely on historical data. This paper proposes a fuzzy risk analysis model (FRAM) that uses fuzzy arithmetic to analyze risk and opportunity events and determine...
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Evaluating Risk Response Strategies on Construction Projects Using a Fuzzy Rule-Based System
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Fateminia, Seyed Hamed, Seresht, Nima Gerami, Fayek, Aminah Robinson
The development and implementation of risk response strategies contributes to effective risk management processes in construction organizations. Risk response strategies need to be developed and implemented as follows: first, all possible risk responses for each given risk event of a project are...
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Aggregation-Based Framework for Construction Risk Assessment with Heterogeneous Groups of Experts
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Monzer, Natalie, Fayek, Aminah Robinson, Lourenzutti, Rodolfo, Siraj, Nasir B.
Construction companies continuously seek to improve risk analysis techniques to determine the contingency of projects. Construction risk assessment relies on a group decision-making (GDM) process, in which a heterogeneous group of experts provides their opinions to determine the probabilities and...
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Social Media Policies in Russian Organizations: An Exploratory Study of Social Media Policy Implementation in Different Types of Organizations in Russia
Download2019-08-25
Social media offers many advantages to people and organizations worldwide, but there is also a dark side to this phenomenon. For instance, an organization’s reputation can be seriously damaged by employees’ actions and online posts. However, many organizations still do not implement social media...
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Risk Identification and Common Risks in Construction: Literature Review and Content Analysis
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Siraj, Nasir B., Fayek, Aminah Robinson
This paper examines common risk identification tools and techniques, risk classification methods, and common risks for construction projects. A systematic review and detailed content analysis of 130 selected articles from well-regarded and relevant academic journals published over the last three...
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Fall 2018
The thesis deals with the problem of minimization of Conditional Value at Risk within the context of Margrabe market under constraints on the initial capital available. We propose to approximate the distribution of the difference between two lognormal random variables using normal distribution...