Aircraft accident investigation: the decision-making in initial action scenario

Aircraft accident investigation: the decision-making in initial action scenario.

In the complex aeronautical environment, the efforts in terms of operational safety involve the adoption of proactive and reactive measures. The process of investigation begins right after the occurrence of the aeronautical accident, through the initial action. Thus, it is in the crisis scenario, that the person responsible for the initial action makes decisions and gathers the necessary inform...

Aircraft accident investigation: the pathologist's role.

General Aspects in Aircraft Accident Investigation

Wiegman and Shappel (26) described years ago a practical and comprehensive model of human factors which can be applied to every accident. The so named HFACS or Human factors Accident Classification System model followed the causative models described by previously by Reason (17) and later by AGARD WG-23 (19). Nowdays it constitues a handy taxonomical tool to identify and determine causal facts ...

Multiple attributes decision making method on social stability in nuclear accident scenario

The Chernobyl nuclear accident made Europe and even the whole world clearly aware of the threats posed by nuclear accidents. When the Fukushima nuclear accident happened in Japan, the “Rush for Salt Affair” took place in some Chinese cities. Meanwhile, large numbers of anti-nuclear parades were held in many Western countries, such as Germany and the United States. Nuclear accidents have a much ...

Electronic Market Making: Initial Investigation

This paper establishes an analytical foundation for electronic market making. Creating an automated securities dealer is a challenging task with important theoretical and practical implications. Our main interest is a normative automation of the market maker’s activities, as opposed to explanatory modeling of human traders, which was the primary concern of earlier work in this domain. We use a ...