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The International Probabilistic Workshop (IPW2020) will take place on September 23-25, 2020 at University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal.

The workshop aims at providing an international forum for the debate on, among others, issues such as the resilience, robustness and redundancy of infrastructure systems, risk assessment and management, climate change and loading uncertainties, novel decision-making frameworks, and many other topics. Continue reading “TIPW2020, September 23-25, 2020, Guimarães, Portugal”

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During the 1st phase of all major crises, responses are needed despite the lack of realistic data that can’t be issued but from the field. Decision makers can’t wait the arrival of real field collected data. However, they need rational support to make decisions. Rational support should be systematic and perform close—to-real simulations.

Considering the COVID-19 global crisis and specifically the French case, decision makers are presently, (March 2020), focusing on two sets of populations: the set of infected individuals and the set of deceased individuals. Continue reading “Short Technical Note on Covid-19 Propagation by M. Eid”