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Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Modeling with Matlab®

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 Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Modeling with Matlab®
Eduardo Souza de Cursi, National Institute for Applied Sciences, Rouen, France
Rubens Sampaio, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
ISBN: 978178540058
Publication Date: March 2015 Hardback 456 pp.
185.00 USD

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Description
Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) is a relatively new research area which describes the methods and
approaches used to supply quantitative descriptions of the effects of uncertainty, variability and errors in
simulation problems and models. It is rapidly becoming a field of increasing importance, with many real-world
applications within statistics, mathematics, probability and engineering, but also within the natural sciences.
Literature on the topic has up until now been largely based on polynomial chaos, which raises difficulties
when considering different types of approximation and does not lead to a unified presentation of the
methods. Moreover, this description does not consider either deterministic problems or infinite dimensional
ones.
This book gives a unified, practical and comprehensive presentation of the main techniques used for the
characterization of the effect of uncertainty on numerical models and on their exploitation in numerical
problems. In particular, applications to linear and nonlinear systems of equations, differential equations,
optimization and reliability are presented. Applications of stochastic methods to deal with deterministic
numerical problems are also discussed.
Matlab® illustrates the implementation of these methods and makes the book suitable as a textbook and for
self-study.
Contents
1. Elements of Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.
2. Maximum Entropy and Information.
3. Representation of Random Variables.
4. Linear Algebraic Equations Under Uncertainty.
5. Nonlinear Algebraic Equations Involving Random Parameters.
6. Differential Equations Under Uncertainty.
7. Optimization Under Uncertainty.
8. Reliability-Based Optimization.
About the Authors
Eduardo Souza de Cursi is Professor at the National Institute for Applied Sciences in Rouen, France, where
he is also Dean of International Affairs and Director of the Laboratory for the Optimization and Reliability in
Structural Mechanics.
Rubens Sampaio is Professor at PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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