Limits to human optimization in inspection performance

DOI10.1080/002077201750281909MaRDI QIDQ3152468zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chia-Fen Chi, Colin G. Drury

Publication date 4 May 2003

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/002077201750281909

zbMATH Keywords

economic modelhuman optimization modelinspectionsignal detection theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stopping times; optimal stopping problems; gambling theory (60G40) Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research (90B25) Manpower systems in sociology (91D35) Automated systems (robots, etc.) in control theory (93C85) Detection theory in information and communication theory (94A13)

Review text

A human optimization model for inspection is constructed by combining Marawski's economic model and signal detection theory. This model is tested using ten male engineering graduate students under an inspection scenario. It is observed that the human controllers reduce the human information processing by using simplifying rules. Among the five functions (initiate, access, search, decision and respond) only search and decision are herein considered as a result of their larger contributions. Note of the reviewer: when, for the first time, the civil jet trajectory which minimizes the fuel consumption has been determined by using optimization theory, one obtains exactly the trajectory which was followed by the pilots without any theory.

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