This paper summarizes the work of the working group on “Progressive Automation” at Dagstuhl-Seminar 09201 “Self-Healing and Self-Adaptive Systems”, May 5th – May 10th 2009. In many management automation scenarios, the involved people (both developers and users of the MAS) tend to not understand all the effects of automation well. This is a problem, because both undertrust and overtrust have neg...

Designing a practical test automation architecture provides a solid foundation for a successful automation effort. This paper describes key elements of automated testing that need to be considered, models for testing that can be used for designing a test automation architecture, and considerations for successfully combining the elements to form an automated test environment. The paper first dev...

OBJECTIVE This paper considers the influence of "Humans and Automation: Use, Misuse, Disuse, Abuse" and examines how it relates to the evolving issue of human-automation interaction. BACKGROUND Automation presents important practical challenges that can dramatically affect satisfaction, performance, and safety; philosophical challenges also arise as automation changes the nature of work and h...

Flow management systems such as supply chain (SC) systems involve multiple operators managing elements of automation. The success of such multi-operator multi-automation systems depends not only on individual operator’s appropriate use of automation, but also on cooperation between operators. Inappropriate reliance on automation may be a critical factor hindering cooperation and sharing automat...

This paper presents an extended literature review of the human factors impacts of current and future automation in the minerals industry. It begins by defining what is automation and stating why it is being developed and deployed. It then outlines why it is important to consider operators and maintainers when designing and deploying mining automation. To put mining automation into context, less...