Papers (most of them available online)

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E. Plischke,
Datenvalidierung und Modellauswahl,
Diplomarbeit Universität Bremen, 1999. (pdf)

D. Hinrichsen, E. Plischke, A.J. Pritchard,
Liapunov and Riccati equations for practical stability,
Proceedings of the ECC 2001, Porto, Portugal. (pdf)

D. Hinrichsen, E. Plischke, F. Wirth,
State Feedback Stabilization with Guaranteed Transient Bounds,
Proceedings of the MTNS 2002, South Bend, Indiana. (pdf)

D. Hinrichsen, E. Plischke, F. Wirth,
Robustness of transient behavior,
In V. Blondel, A. Megretski (Eds), Unsolved Problems in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory,
Princeton University Press, 2004, (online version). (pdf)

E. Plischke, F. Wirth,
Stabilization of Linear Systems with Prescribed Transient Bounds,
Proceedings of the MTNS 2004, Leuven, Begium. (pdf)

E. Plischke,
Transient Effects of Linear Dynamical Systems,
Dissertation, Universität Bremen, 2005. (online version) (pdf) (pdf with cross-references) (ps.gz)

V.L. Kharitonov, E. Plischke,
Lyapunov matrices for time-delay systems,
Syst. Control Lett. 55, No. 9, 697-706 (2006). (Link to Full Text) Preliminary Report (pdf)

E. Plischke, F. Wirth,
Duality results for the joint spectral radius and transient behavior,
Linear Algebra and its Applications 428, No. 10, 2368-2384 (2008). (Link to Full Text) (pdf)

D. Hinrichsen, E. Plischke,
Robust stability and transient behaviour of positive linear systems,
Vietnam Journal of Mathematics 35, No. 4, 429-462 (2007). (pdf)

E. Plischke,
Milestone 2.1.D.3: Plan for benchmark, including specification of synthetic PA cases.
PAMINA Project, Sixth Framework Programme, European Commission, 2008. (Local Copy)

E. Plischke, K.-J. Röhlig, A. Badea, R. Bolado Lavin, P.-A. Ekström, S. Hotzel,
Milestone 2.1.D.11, Sensitivity Analysis Benchmark Based on the Use of Analytic and Synthetic PA Cases (Topic Report).
PAMINA Project, Sixth Framework Programme, European Commission, 2009. (Local Copy)

E. Plischke, K.-J. Röhlig,
Milestone 2.2.D.1, Review of Spatial Variability in Performance Assessments
PAMINA Project, Sixth Framework Programme, European Commission, 2008. (Link to Full Text)

K.-J. Röhlig, E. Plischke, R. Bolado Lavín, D.-A. Becker, P.-A. Ekström, S. Hotzel,
Lessons learnt from studies on sensitivity analysis techniques in the EU project PAMINA: A benchmark study.
Proceedings of ESREL 2009: Reliability, Risk and Safety. Theory and Applications, Vol 3, 1769-1775, 2009. (Preprint)

K.-J. Röhlig, D. Appel, B. Kienzler, K.-H. Lux, R. Odoj, E. Plischke,
Review des im Vorhaben „Überprüfung und Bewertung des Instrumentariums für eine sicherheitliche Bewertung von Endlagern für HAW“ (ISIBEL) erstellten FEP-Katalogs
BMWi Vorhaben 02E10598, 2010. (Search TIB)

E. Plischke,
An effective algorithm for computing global sensitivity indices (EASI).
Reliability Engineering & System Safety 95, 354-360 (2010). (Link to Full Text) (Preprint)

E. Plischke,
An adaptive correlation ratio method using the cumulative sum of the reordered output.
Reliability Engineering & System Safety 107, 149-156 (2012). (Link to Full Text) (Extended Conference Abstract) (Preprint)

E. Plischke,
How to compute variance-based sensitivity indicators with your spreadsheet software.
Environmental Modelling & Software 35, 188-191 (2012). (Link To Full Text) (Preprint)
Added Value:
Ishigami test function spreadsheet (xls), Level E spreadsheet (xlsx) , Experimental VSI Add-In for Excel 2007 (needs VC runtime) (xll) ,
C++ implementation (C) , MatLab implementation using discrete cosine transformation (M)

Elmar Plischke, Emanuele Borgonovo, Curtis L. Smith,
Global Sensitivity Measures from Given Data.
European Journal of Operations Research 226, No. 3, 536-550 (2013). (Link to Full Text) (PSAM11/ESREL2012 Conference Paper)
Added Value:
MatLab implementations: with lots of undocumented options (deltamim.m), plain and simple (deltafast.m)

Sebastian Kuhlmann, Elmar Plischke, Klaus-Jürgen Röhlig, Dirk-Alexander Becker
Sensitivity analysis: Theory and practical application in safety cases.
In: The Safety Case for Deep Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste: 2013 State of the Art
Symposium Proceedings, 7-9 October 2013, Paris, France
OECD NEA/RWM/R(2013)9 (Link to Full Text)

Klaus-Jürgen Röhlig, Elmar Plischke, Xiaoshuo Li
Probabilistische Methoden zur Bemessung von Verschlussbauwerken für ein Endlager im Salinar.
Project Report DBE Technology GmbH Contract FE 0001-2010, TU Clausthal, 2014. (Search TIB)

Elmar Plischke, Emanuele Borgonovo
What about totals? Alternative approaches to factor fixing.
In: R.D.J.M Steenberger, P.H.A.J.M van Gelder, S. Miraglia, A.C.W.M. Vrouwenvelder (eds.)
Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis: Beyond the Horizon
Proceedings of the ESREL 2013 Conference held in Amsterdam
CRC Press/Taylor & Fracis Group, 2014. (Link to Full Text) (Local Copy)

Emanuele Borgonovo, Gordon B. Hazen, Elmar Plischke
A Common Rationale for Global Sensitivity Analysis.
In: R.D.J.M Steenberger, P.H.A.J.M van Gelder, S. Miraglia, A.C.W.M. Vrouwenvelder (eds.)
Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis: Beyond the Horizon
Proceedings of the ESREL 2013 Conference held in Amsterdam
CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. (Link to Full Text) (Local Copy)

Emanuele Borgonovo, Stefano Tarantola, Elmar Plischke, Max D. Morris,
Transformations and invariance in the sensitivity analysis of computer experiments.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B 76, Part 5, 925-947 (2014). (Link to Full Text)

Klaus-Jürgen Röhlig, Clemens Walther, Friedrich-Wilhelm Bach, Achim Brunnengräber, Harald Budelmann, Saleem Chaudry, Anne Eckhardt, Horst Geckeis, Armin Grunwald, Thomas Hassel, Peter Hocke, Karl-Heinz Lux, Kurt Mengel, Volker Metz, Konrad Ott, Elmar Plischke, Moritz Riemann, Ulrich Smeddinck, Miranda Schreurs, Joachim Stahlmann,
Memorandum zur Entsorgung hochradioaktiver Reststoffe
Forschungsplattform ENTRIA, Niedersächsische Technische Hochschule (nth), Hannover, 2014. (Link to Full Text)

Emanuele Borgonovo, Elmar Plischke,
Sensitivity analysis: A review of recent advances.
European Journal of Operational Research 248(3): 869-887 (2016). (Link to Full Text)

Emanuele Borgonovo, Gordon B. Hazen, Elmar Plischke,
A Common Rationale for Global Sensitivity Measures and Their Estimation.
Risk Analysis 36(10), 1871-1895 (2016) (Link to Full Text)

Elmar Plischke, Emanuele Borgonovo,
Copula-based Sensitivity Measures of Computer Experiments.
L. Podofillini, B. Sudret, B. Stojadinović, E. Zio, W. Kröger (eds),
Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems
Proceedings of the 25th European Safety and Reliability Conference held in Zürich, Switzerland, September 7-10, 2015
CRC Press / Taylor & Francis, 2015 (Local Copy)

Saleem Chaudry, Elmar Plischke,
Wissenschaftliche Synthese bei der Forschung zur Entsorgung radioaktiver Reststoffe in der Forschungsplattform ENTRIA.
In: Ulrich Smeddinck, Sophie Kuppler, Saleem Chaudry (Hrsg.),
Inter- und Transdisziplinarität bei der Entsorgung radioaktiver Reststoffe. Grundlagen - Beispiele - Wissenssynthese
Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden, 2016. (Link to Full Text)

Elmar Plischke, Emanuele Borgonovo,
Gini out of the bottle: Global sensitivity analysis with distance correlation and energy statistics.
In: Lesley Walls, Matthew Revie, Tim Bedford (eds),
Risk, Reliability and Safety. Innovating Theory and Practice.
Proceedings of the 26th European Safety and Reliability conference ESREL 2016. Glasgow, Scotland, 25-29 September 2016,
CRC Press / Taylor & Francis, 2017

Emanuele Borgonovo, Xuefei Lu, Elmar Plischke, Oldrich Rakovec, Mary C. Hill,
Making the most out of a hydrological model data set: Sensitivity analyses to open the model black-box.
Water Resources Research 53(9), 7933-7950 (2017). (Link to Full Text)

Emanuele Borgonovo, Max D. Morris, Elmar Plischke,
Functional ANOVA with Multiple Distributions: Implications for the Sensitivity Analysis of Computer Experiments.
SIAM/ASA J. Uncertainty Quantification 6(1), 397-427 (2018). (Link to Full Text) (Preprint)

T. Beuth, G. Bracke, S. Chaudry, A. Lommerzheim, K.-M. Mayer, V. Metz, J. Mönig, S. Mrugalla, J. Orzechowski, E. Plischke, K.-J. Röhlig, A. Rübel, G. Stolzenberg, J. Wolf, J. Wollrath,
Position des Arbeitskreises „Szenarienentwicklung“ zur Thematik: Wahrscheinlichkeitsklassen und Umgang mit unwahrscheinlichen Entwicklungen.
atw 63(11/12), 593-600 (2018).

Elmar Plischke, Emanuele Borgonovo,
Copula theory and probabilistic sensitivity analysis: Is there a connection?
European Journal of Operational Research 277(3), 1046-1059 (2019). (Link to Full Text)

Emanuele Borgonovo, Gordon B. Hazen, Victor Richmond R. Jose, Elmar Plischke,
Probabilistic sensitivity measures as information value.
European Journal of Operational Research 289(2), 595-610 (2021). (Link to Full Text)

Elmar Plischke, Emanuele Borgonovo,
Fighting the Curse of Sparsity: Probabilistic Sensitivity Measures From Cumulative Distribution Functions.
Risk Analysis 40(12), 2639-2660 (2020). (Link to Full Text)

Saman Razavi, Anthony Jakeman, Andrea Saltelli, Clémentine Prieur, Bertrand Iooss, Emanuele Borgonovo, Elmar Plischke, Samuele Lo Piano, Takuya Iwanaga, William Becker, Stefano Tarantola, Joseph H. A. Guillaume, John Jakeman, Hoshin Gupta, Nicola Melillo, Giovanni Rabitti, Vincent Chabridon, Qingyun Duan, Xifu Sun, Stefán Smith, Razi Sheikholeslami, Nasim Hosseini, Masoud Asadzadeh, Arnald Puy, Sergei Kucherenko, Holger R. Maier,
The Future of Sensitivity Analysis: An essential discipline for systems modeling and policy support.
Environmental Modelling and Software 137, 104954 (2021). (Link to Full Text)

Elmar Plischke, Giovanni Rabitti, Emanuele Borgonovo,
Computing Shapley Effects for Sensitivity Analysis. SIAM/ASA J. Uncertainty Quantification 9(4): 1411-1437 (2021). (Link to Full Text) (Preprint)

Manel Baucells, Emanuele Borgonovo, Elmar Plischke, John Barr, Herschel Rabitz,
Trend Analysis in the Age of Machine Learning.
Darden Business School Working Paper No. 3867894 (2021). (Link to Full Text)

Laura P. Swiler, Dirk-Alexander Becker, Dusty Brooks, Joan Govaerts, Lasse Koskinen, Pekka Kupiainen, Elmar Plischke, Klaus-Jürgen Röhlig, Elena Saveleva, Sabine M. Spiessl, Emily Stein, Valentina Svitelman,
Sensitivity Analysis Comparisons on Geologic Case Studies: An International Collaboration.
SANDIA Report SAND2021-11053, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, Sept. 2021. (Link to Full Text) (Local Copy)

Emanuele Borgonovo, Alessio Figalli, Elmar Plischke, Giuseppe Savarè,
Probabilistic Sensitivity with Optimal Transport.
In Preparation. (Preprint)

Emanuele Borgonovo, Elmar Plischke, Giovanni Rabitti,
Interactions and Computer Experiments.
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 49(3): Pages 1274-1303 (2022). (Link to Full Text)

Emanuele Borgonovo, Genyuan Li, John Barr, Elmar Plischke, Herschel Rabitz,
Global Sensitivity Analysis with Mixtures: A Generalized Functional ANOVA Approach.
Risk Analysis 42(2):304-333 (2022). (Link to Full Text)

Emanuele Borgonovo, Valentina Ghidini, Roman Hahn, Elmar Plischke,
Classifier Explainability with Measures of Statistical Association.
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (2023). (Link to Full Text)

Emanuele Borgonovo, Elmar Plischke, Clémentine Prieur,
Total Effects with Constrained Features.
In Preparation (2023). (Preprint)