ALLY: An Operator’s Associate for Cooperative Supervisory Control Systems

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 111-128

  Rubin, Kenneth S ^d  

^a Air Force Materiel Command   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d ParcPIace Systems 1550 Plymouth St Mountain View ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SATELLITES;

COOPERATIVE SUPERVISORY CONTROL; DECISION AIDS; SATELLITE GROUND CONTROL;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0027274107     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/21.214771     Document Type: Article

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