Acknowledgements
The author wishes to thank everyone who helped make this book possible. The book could not have existed without the debt owed by the author to his former employers Sogreah and Electricité de France, being richly inspired by his close collaborators and partners such as Serge Hugonnard and Yannick Lefebvre in particular as well as Emmanuel Remy, Christian Derquenne, Laurent Carraro and Gilles Celeux.
Nicolas Devictor, Stefano Tarantola, Philip Limbourg and the other co-authors of the Wiley book ‘Uncertainty in Industrial Practice’ and the European cross-industry network, as well as its first-class reviewers Terje Aven and Jon Helton, helped in crafting and challenging the generic modelling approach in early versions of the book. Others such as Nicolas Fischer, Erick Herbin, Alberto Pasanisi, Fabien Mangeant, Bertrand Iooss and Regis Farret accompanied the author in launching pioneering executive education programmes and Master's/PhD level courses at the Ecole Centrale Paris as well as providing key opportunities to complete the pedagogical approach and tutorial examples. Numerous Master's, PhD students and industrial attendees involved in those initiatives also questioned and helped refine the material through years of teaching practice.
Thanks are also merited by a large number of reviewers including Jérôme Collet, Bertrand Iooss, Emilia Ferrario and Enrico Zio, Yann Richet, Pierre Bertrand, Bernard Gourion, Guillaume Malingue and Eric Walter.
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