Book Review: Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis in Engineering and the Sciences by B.M. Ayyub and G.J. Klir

摘要

Current techniques for visualising information commonly do not include degrees of certainty (or the degrees and types of ignorance) associated with individual or aggregated information. For example, for a commander in a battlefield to command, she or he needs to choose. To choose is to decide — almost always on the basis of imperfect information - and momentous decisions require knowledge of threats with a degree of certainty that might not be a requisite for decisions less momentous than waging war. Battlespace visualisation techniques should allow both information and uncertainty to be portrayed effectively and grouped intuitively. Intelligent agents are promising technologies that may facilitate visualisation of data and information uncertainty. Civilian applications can also be constructed to meet societal needs, such as internet information metatagging for uncertainty and uncertainty visualisation of search results.