Advanced air traffic control systems for the next decade will exploit recent progress on effective application of automation and artificial intelligence in human-computer systems. This volume is the proceedings of a NATO ASI where this issue was discussed.

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The Impact of Automation on Air Traffic Control Systems.- Assumptions and Automation in Air Traffic Systems.- Perspectives on Air Traffic Control Automation.- Computerization and Automation: Upgrading the American Air Traffic Control System.- The Canadian Automated Air Traffic System (CAATS): An Overview.- The Implementation and Impact of Automatic Data Processing on UK Military ATC Operations.- From Under the Headset: The Role of the Air Traffic Controllers' Professional Association in Present and Future Air Traffic Control Systems Development.- A Collation of Approaches to Systems.- Air Traffic Control and Systems Issues.- ICAO and Future Air Navigation Systems.- Social, Political, and Regulatory Issues Concerning Harmonization of Interacting Air Traffic Control Systems in Western Europe.- Aircraft Traffic Forecast and Communications Requirements in the Year 2000.- Automation in Environmental Engineering.- The Role of Automation and Control Systems in Water Resources Engineering.- Automated Aids and Their Evaluation.- Intelligent Dialogue in Air Traffic Control Systems.- Close Ground/Air Cooperation in Dynamic Air Traffic Management.- Multi-layer Queuing Model to Check Automated Air Traffic Control Systems.- Application of Planning Aids for Air Traffic Control: Design Principles, Solutions, Results.- Artificial Intelligence and Human Factors in ATC: Current Activity at Eurocontrol Experimental Centre.- Meeting the ATC Challenge through Simulation.- Human Attributes, Representatives, and Requirements in Relation to Automation.- The Aims of Human Factors and Their Application to Issues in Automation and Air Traffic Control.- Human Factors in System Design.- Automated Systems: The Human Factor.- Modelling Control Tasks in Complex Systems.- Mental Models in Air TrafficControl.- The Controller in Human Engineering.- Acceptance of New Systems by Air Traffic Controllers.- Effects of the System on the Human: Stress and Workload.- Stress and Workload Management in Air Traffic Control.- Shiftwork and Circadian Variations of Vigilance and Performance.- Operator Workload as a Limiting Factor in Complex Systems.- Attention, Workload, and Automation.- Approaches to Error and Failure.- ICAO and Civil/Military Coordination.- Error Models for Operating Irregularities: Implications for Automation.- Cognitive Failures in Military Air Traffic Control.- Human Factors in ATC Communication.- Results of a Perceptual Study on Human Error in Computer Systems Based on Bailey's Research.- Organizational and Cultural Aspects of Air Traffic Control Automation.- Automation, Information, and Consciousness in Air Traffic Control.- Issues in Cultural Ergonomics.- Air Traffic Controller Working Conditions and Organization: Suggestions for Analysis and Improvements from a Psychological Point of View.- Automation as an Influence on Controller Selection.- Selecting for Air Traffic Control: The State of the Art.- Selection of Air Traffic Controllers for Automated Systems: Applications from Today's Research.- Automation Issues for the Selection of Controllers.- Automation in ATC: How Does It Affect the Selection of Controllers?.- Consequences of Automation for Training and Resource Management.- Training Requirements for Automated ATC.- Adaptive Training to Accommodate Automation in the Air Traffic Control System.- Resource Management Training for Air Traffic Controllers.- Non-Technical Training for Technocrats: Resource Management at Canadian Airlines.- Critical Issues for Decision Makers in Providing Operator and Maintainer Training for Advanced Air TrafficControl Systems.- Speculations on Automation and Air Traffic Control.- A Modest Proposal for Future Systems.- The Blue Sky Challenge: A Personal View.- Automation and Systems Issues in Air Traffic Control: Blue Sky Concepts.- What If... We Integrated Both Training and Monitoring Functions into Air Traffic Control Workstations?.- Some Final Thoughts.- Closing Remarks.- Anyone at Home?.- Participants.- Photographs of Air Traffic Control Facilities.- Index and Glossary.