Measures for air traffic controller workload prediction

1st AIAA, Aircraft, Technology Integration, and Operations Forum

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Chatterji, Gano B ^a   Sridhar, Banavar ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; AVIATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPLEX NETWORKS; CONTROLLERS; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TRAINING AIRCRAFT;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER; MEASURES OF COMPLEXITY; NEURAL NETWORK METHOD; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD; PATTERN RECOGNITION PROBLEMS; SEPARATION ASSURANCES; TRAINED NEURAL NETWORKS;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 85086494221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2001-5242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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