Towards a New Way of Understanding the Resilience of Socio-Technical Systems: The Safety Fractal Analysis Method Evaluated

Despite the systems approach to accident analysis being the dominant research paradigm and the concept of SMS being introduced in high-risk industries already for several years, accident investigation practice is still poor in analysing the basic elements that compose a safety management system (SMS) and in embracing system theory. In search of...

Agent-based Approach to Retrospective Analysis of Aviation Accidents

Agent based modelling is a relatively new paradigm allowing to model the various components of the complex socio-technical air transportation system as well as the interactions between these components. Because situation awareness plays a key role in agent-based modelling, researchers at NLR had developed approaches in modelling Multi-Agent...