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Secondly, a decision matrix is then constructed from the evaluation vectors and evaluation standards, and an entropy-based technique is applied to calculate the index weights. Thirdly, positive and negative prospect value matrices are established from reference points based on the positive and negative ideal solutions. Thus, this enables the crane safety grade to be determined according to the ranked comprehensive prospect values. Finally, the safety status of four general overhead traveling crane samples is evaluated to verify the rationality and feasibility of the proposed method. The results demonstrate that the method described in this paper can precisely and reasonably reflect the safety status of a crane.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e19010044","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,23]],"date-time":"2017-01-23T10:40:33Z","timestamp":1485168033000},"page":"44","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Crane Safety Assessment Method Based on Entropy and Cumulative Prospect Theory"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Aihua","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430063, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3231-244X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhangyan","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430063, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"149","article-title":"Study on special equipment safety risk assessment and control measures","volume":"24","author":"Zhu","year":"2014","journal-title":"China Saf. 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