A real-time warning model for teamwork performance and system safety in nuclear power plants

Safety Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 425-435

  Hwang, Sheue Ling ^a   Liang, Guo Feng ^a   Lin, Jhih Tsong ^a   Yau, Yi Jan ^a   Yenn, Tzu Chung ^b   Hsu, Chong Cheng ^b   Chuang, Chang Fu ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; GMDH; Mental Workload; NPPs; Real time warning model (RTWM); Teamwork

Indexed keywords

GMDH; MENTAL WORKLOAD; NPPS; REAL-TIME WARNING MODEL (RTWM); TEAMWORK;

DATA HANDLING; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; GROUPWARE; INFERENCE ENGINES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; NASA; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

FUZZY INFERENCE;

ALARM MONITOR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; MODEL; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATOR; TAIWAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEAMWORK; WORKLOAD;

EID: 58349118441     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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