Reliability of decision making in human-organizations

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 543-549

  Nordmann, Lars ^a   Pham, Hoang ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

k out of n system; Majority system; Stuck at modes; System reliability; Three failure mode

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ERRORS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY;

HUMAN ORGANIZATIONS; MAJORITY SYSTEM; STUCK AT MODES; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; THREE FAILURE MODE;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 0031190050     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.594919     Document Type: Article

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