The tactical Tomahawk conundrum: Designing decision support systems for revolutionary domains

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1583-1588

  Cummings, Mary L ^a   Guerlain, Stephanie ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive work analysis; Command and control; Decision support; Revolutionary domain

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MISSILES; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COGNITIVE WORK ANALYSIS; COMMAND AND CONTROL; DESIGN CONSTRAINTS; ECOLOGICAL INTERFACE DESIGN; REVOLUTIONARY DOMAINS; TACTICAL TOMAHAWK CONUNDRUM;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0242660377     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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