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An Information Theory-based Approach to Modeling the Information Processing of NPP Operators  

Kim, Jong-Hyun (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Seong, Poong-Hyun (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.34, no.4, 2002 , pp. 301-313 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a quantitative approach to modeling the information processing of NPP operators. The aim of this work is to derive the amount of the information processed during a certain control task. The focus will be on i) developing a model for information processing of NPP operators and ii) quantifying the model. To resolve the problems of the previous approaches based on the information theory, i.e. the problems of single channel approaches, we primarily develop the information processing model having multiple stages, which contains information flows. Then the uncertainty of the information is quantified using the Conant’s model, 3 kind of information theory.
Keywords
information processing; information theory; quantification; workload;
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