Quantification of alarm chatter based on run length distributions

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 6809-6814

  Kondaveeti, Sandeep R ^a   Izadi, Iman ^b   Shah, Sirish L ^a   Shook, David S ^a   Kadali, Ramesh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MATRIKON INC   (Canada)

^c SUNCOR ENERGY INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUISANCE ALARMS; OPERATOR ACTION; PROCESS INDUSTRIES; PROMINENT FEATURES; RUN LENGTH; RUN LENGTH DISTRIBUTION;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

EID: 79953128419     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2010.5718086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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