A computational situation assessment model for nuclear power plant operations

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

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 728-742

  Miao, Adam X ^a,b   Zacharias, Greg L ^a,c   Kao, Shih Ping ^d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Dragon Systems   (United States)

^c CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS   (United States)

^d Northeast Utilities   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL SITUATION ASSESSMENT MODEL; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT EMERGENCIES;

REACTOR OPERATION;

EID: 0031273387     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.634636     Document Type: Article

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