1st Edition

Decision Making in Complex Environments

Edited By Malcolm Cook, Jan Noyes Copyright 2007
458 Pages
by CRC Press

458 Pages
by CRC Press

458 Pages
by CRC Press

Many complex systems in civil and military operations are highly automated with the intention of supporting human performance in difficult cognitive tasks. The complex systems can involve teams or individuals working on real-time supervisory control, command or information management tasks where a number of constraints must be satisfied. Decision Making in Complex Environments addresses the role... Read more
List of Figures, List of Tables, List of Contributors, Foreword, Part 1: Characteristics of Complex Decision Making, Part 2: Areas of Application, Part 3: Complex Decision Making in Civil Applications, Part 4: Complex Decision Making in Military Applications, Part 5: Teams and Complex Decision Making, Part 6: Assessment and Measurement, Part 7: A Final Comment, Index

Biography

Dr Malcolm Cook is Senior Lecturer in Military & Aerospace Human Factors, University of Abertay Dundee, UK. Dr Jan Noyes is Professor in Human Factors Psychology at the University of Bristol, UK. Dr Yvonne Masakowski is a Human Factors Engineering Psychologist at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Rhode Island, USA.

'The wealth of data and variety of illustrations, together with sustained textual clarity of description and explanation, make it a provocative revelation and invaluable reference tool for the many on whom the responsibility for decision-making falls.' The RoSPA Occupational Safety & Health Journal August 2007