Labeled @-calculus: formalism for time-concerned human factors

  • Authors:
  • Tetsuya Mizutani;Shigeru Igarashi;Yasuwo Ikeda;Masayuki Shio

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba;Graduate School of Community Development, Tokiwa University;Department of Computer & Media Science, Saitama Junior College;College of Community Development, Tokiwa University

  • Venue:
  • AISC'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In the recent years it has come to be more and more important to analyze and verify systems which control complex external systems, like railways and airlines, whose serious accidents have been caused not only by bugs in software or hardware but also by human errors possibly involved in recognition or decision. This paper deals with an actual traffic accident widely known as “Shigaraki Kougen Railway accident” caused by a fatal decision based upon certain incorrect knowledge, as an example of systems involving human factor. In order to represent and analyze this accident, the formal system @-calculus is generalized into the “labeled” @-calculus so as to describe time-concerned recognition, knowledge, belief and decision of humans besides external physical or logical phenomena, while the word ‘time-concerned' is used to express the property not only time-dependent mathematically but also distinctively featured by subtle and sophisticated sensitivity, interest or concern in exact time. Topics: Artificial intelligence, logic, mathematical knowledge management.