A customer’s utility measure based on the reliability of multi-state systems

Preferences, Utility functions, Accumulated discounted utility, Non-homogeneous semi-Markov processes, Rewards processes, Backward processes, C44, E20,

Utilising Corpus Linguistic Tools for Analysing Social Change in Risk

This chapter illustrates the utility of linguistic tools for the analysis of the changing meaning and practices of risk in society through examples of historical social changes in news coverage of The Times (London).1 With the increasing digitisation of print media and the proliferation of social media, a rapidly growing body of digitised text is available to social sciences for analysis. These mass data are an invaluable resource for risk studies. However, they do not only provide new opportunities but challenges for research methods. Detailed qualitative analyses quickly meet limits when facing the enormous amount of data. New automated strategies are required to support the exploration of patterns that are embedded, but not easily recognisable to humans, in relatively unstructured collections of text