Information Systems: Failure Analysis -

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Sommaire:
Systemic Aspects of Information System Failure.- Disaster Warning Systems: Learning from Failure.- System Issues in Information System Failure.- System Failure Models as a Result of Design Inadequacy.- Failure of Business Information Systems.- The Relationship Between Information and Decision Making and the Effect on the Reliability and Failure of Information Systems.- For the Record - Some Difficulties of Generating, Discerning, Transmitting, and Receiving a Signal.- Two Examples of Partly Failing Information Systems.- Investigative Methods for Analysis of Information System Failure.- Application of Team Concept/Systems Approach to Investigation of Major Mishaps.- The Investigative Techniques Used by the Challenger Commission to Address Information System Failures as They Related to the Space Shuttle Accident.- Accident Analysis and Information System Failure Analysis.- Factors in the Investigation of Human Error in Accident Causation.- The Investigation of Information Failures in Organizations.- Information System Failures During Hazardous Material Spills.- Control of Information Generated During Failure Analysis of Information Systems.- Human Issues in Failure Analysis.- Management Strategies and Information Failure.- Investigating Sources of Error in the Management of Crises: Theoretical Assumptions and a Methodological Approach.- Fallible Humans and Vulnerable Systems: Lessons Learned from Aviation.- Human Reliability in Information Systems.- Error Auditing in Air Traffic Control.- Failure Analysis of Information Systems: Reflections on the Use of Expert Systems in Information Systems.- Fault Management, Knowledge Support, and Responsibility in Man-Machine Systems.- An Interactionist's View of System Pathology.- Mental Models and Failures in Human-MachineSystems.- Technological Issues in Failure Analysis.- Failure of Process Plant Monitoring Systems.- Use of Software Reliability Tools in Information System Failure.- Failure Analysis of Information Systems with a Cybernetic System Perspective.- Artificial Intelligence Techniques for the Distribution of Critical Information.- Failure Analysis of Information Systems: An Overall Discussion and a Simple Calculative Rationality Model.- A Practical Approach to Automated Testing in PC Boards.- Failure Analysis of Information Systems in Small Manufacturing Enterprises : The Importance of the Human Interface.- Group Reports.- Group Report: System Issues.- Group Report: Investigation Techniques.- Group Report: Organizational Issues.- Group Report: Hardware and Software.- Workshop Participants.