Striving for Safety: Communicating and Deciding in Sociotechnical Systems

How do communications and decisions impact the safety of sociotechnical systems? This paper frames this question in the context of a dynamic system of nested sub-systems. Communications are related to the construct of observability (i.e., how components integrate information to assess the state with...

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Main Authors: Flach, John M., Carroll, John Stephen, Dainoff, Marvin J., Hamilton, W. Ian
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103019