IDEAS Factory Uncertainty Network

环境、卫生和食品部门的评估和决策过程带来了许多挑战。它们需要广泛的复杂技术，如征求专家意见、设想情况的制定、数据收集和分析、数学和物理过程建模、空间和时间变异性的表示、参数估计以及概率推断和预测。他们还需要以包容和透明的方式与广泛的利益攸关方进行有效沟通，这一拟议网络的目标是在创意工厂初步成功的基础上再接再厉，促进研究创意的持续合作和交流。特别是，我们寻求促进兴奋和挑战，与来自其他学科的人密切接触，并意识到来自一个领域的技能可以帮助提供解决另一个领域具有挑战性问题的部分解决方案。

The assessment and decision making processes within environmental, health, and food sectors pose numerous challenges. They require a wide range of sophisticated techniques such as elicitation of expert opinions, scenario development, data collection and analysis, mathematical and physical process modelling, representations of spatial and temporal variability, parameter estimation, and probabilistic inference and forecasting. They also need to communicate effectively to a wide range of stakeholders in an inclusive and transparent manner.The goal of this proposed network is to build on the initial success of the ideas factory and promote continuing collaboration and exchange of research ideas. In particular, we seek to foster the excitement and challenge of being in close proximity to people from other disciplines and realising that skills from one area can help to provide part of the solution to a challenging problem in another field.