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Nuclear accidents such as that at Chernobyl in 1986 have emphasised the need for improving the emergency management of any accidental release of radio-activity. RODOS is a real-time on-line decision support system intended to be used throughout all phases of a nuclear accident. It follows a consistent Bayesian methodology for handling uncertainty and the effective communication of this to the decision makers. Evaluation is based upon multi-attribute value and utility methods with extensive provision of sensitivity analysis and automated explanations to the decision maker.
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French, S., Papamichail, K.N., Ranyard, D.C., Smith, J.Q. (1998). Design of a Decision Support System for use in the Event of a Nuclear Emergency. In: Girón, F.J. (eds) Applied Decision Analysis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0759-6_1
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