TY - JOUR
T1 - On information value and decision analyses
AU - Thöns, Sebastian
AU - Caprani, Colin
AU - Faber, Michael Havbro
AU - Frangopol, Dan M.
AU - Gardoni, Paolo
AU - Giordano, Pier Francesco
AU - Honfi, Daniel
AU - Iannacone, Leandro
AU - Khan, Mohammad Shihabuddin
AU - Köhler, Jochen
AU - Kim, Sunyong
AU - de Koker, Nico
AU - Limongelli, Maria Pina
AU - Miraglia, Simona
AU - Nielsen, Jannie Sønderkær
AU - Pandey, Mahesh
AU - Viljoen, Celeste
N1 - Funding Information:
The aforementioned developments have led to the initiative of the Joint Committee on Structural Safety (JCSS, https://www.jcss-lc.org/ ) of a scientific networking project on the topic of the quantification of the SHM value: the COST Action TU1402 (and related Wikipedia website on Structural Health Information). The COST Action TU1402, funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) as part of the Horizon 2020 research framework, has been active from 2014 to 2019. The COST Action TU1402 has been a joint effort of 29 European Countries, China, USA and Australia with participants from academia, industry and infrastructure owners, operator and authorities (see https://www.cost-tu1402.eu/network ).
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PY - 2025/3
Y1 - 2025/3
N2 - This paper addresses value of information, structural health information, and decision analyses in built environment engineering. Decision analyses are used for the joint optimization of information collection and the identification of physical measures for the management and enhancement of the expected utility of built environment systems. To these ends, this paper contains (1) principal descriptions of decision scenarios and the model basis in conjunction with the objective functions, embedded in (a) a summary of the historical background and (b) the origins of the methods of decision and value of information analyses, (2) an overview of methods for decision analyses highlighting solution strategies to handle comprehensiveness and computational challenges, (3) principal application areas and case studies, and (4) insights into recent advances. The main insights and an outreach to potential future research perspectives are summarised at the end of this paper.
AB - This paper addresses value of information, structural health information, and decision analyses in built environment engineering. Decision analyses are used for the joint optimization of information collection and the identification of physical measures for the management and enhancement of the expected utility of built environment systems. To these ends, this paper contains (1) principal descriptions of decision scenarios and the model basis in conjunction with the objective functions, embedded in (a) a summary of the historical background and (b) the origins of the methods of decision and value of information analyses, (2) an overview of methods for decision analyses highlighting solution strategies to handle comprehensiveness and computational challenges, (3) principal application areas and case studies, and (4) insights into recent advances. The main insights and an outreach to potential future research perspectives are summarised at the end of this paper.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.strusafe.2024.102481
DO - 10.1016/j.strusafe.2024.102481
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85194180292
SN - 0167-4730
VL - 113
JO - Structural Safety
JF - Structural Safety
M1 - 102481
ER -