Managing safety of diverse systems requires decision-making under uncertainties and risks. Such systems are typically characterized by spatio-temporal heterogeneities, inter-dependencies, externalities, endogenous risks, discontinuities, irreversibility, practically irreducible uncertainties,...

Ongoing global changes pose fundamentally new scientific problems requiring new concepts and tools. A key issue concerns a vast variety of practically irreducible uncertainties, which challenge traditional models and require new concepts and analytical tools. Uncertainty can dominate, as in the...

I. Dynamic Decision Problems under Uncertainty: Modeling Aspects -- Reflections on Output Analysis for Multistage Stochastic Linear Programs -- Modeling Support for Multistage Recourse Problems -- Optimal Solutions for Undiscounted Variance Penalized Markov Decision Chains -- Approximation and...

Stochastic Optimization Methods -- Solution of Stochastic Linear Programs by Discretization Methods -- Optimal Control under Stochastic Uncertainty -- Random Search Procedures for Global Optimization -- Controlled Random Search under Uncertainty -- Controlled Random Search Procedures for Global...