Investigation on applicability of information theory to prediction of operator performance in diagnosis tasks at nuclear power plants

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 1238-1252

  Kim, Jong Hyun ^a   Lee, Seung Jun ^a   Seong, Poong Hyun ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Diagnosis task; Information flow; Information theory; Operator performance; Workload

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COOLANTS; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

INFORMATION FLOW;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 0042426168     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.814939     Document Type: Article

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