Development of An Expert System and Software Agent for Aviation Safety Assessment

Abstract

The primary goal of this thesis is to design, develop and test an internet based prototype model for using expert system and software agent technologies to automate some of the analytical tasks in conducting aviation safety assessments using the data collected by the automated Aviation Command Safety Assessment (ACSA) system. The Aviation Command Safety Assessment is a questionnaire survey methodology developed to evaluate a Naval Aviation Command's safety climate, culture, and safety program effectiveness. The survey was a manual process first administered in the fall of 1996. The survey was then automated in 1999 and is administered over the World Wide Web. The results of this thesis are a prototype model and a software agent application that evaluates data contained in the ACSA database for organizational safety assessment and for database integrity. All source code is provided and discussed in detail.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA377634

Entities

People

  • David M. Dowler
  • Thomas R. Flowers

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Program Reliability
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Digital Toolbox
  • Electronic Mail
  • Information Systems
  • Internet
  • Network Science
  • Operating Systems
  • Relational Database Management Systems
  • Software Agents
  • Web Browsers

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Software Engineering.