APPLICATION OF SOFTWARE, REPRESENTING CUMULONIMBUS CLOUDS, IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL

CS6204: Cumulus, Nimbus, Cumulonimbus – Choosing Between Clouds

Cloud computing is a multi-billion business, with more than 100 cloud service providers [1] vying for supremacy. Businesses are overwhelmed with choices and tradeoffs. In this paper we offer a qualitative and quantitative assessment of leading cloud service providers (CSPs) to guide small and medium businesses (SMBs) in their choice of CSP. Our qualitative study of usability, reliability, and c...

Simplifying Air-Traffic Control: An Exercise in Software Design

We redesigned and reimplemented a component of CTAS, an air traffic control system developed by NASA and now deployed in several US airports. Our case study demonstrates how basic software engineering techniques can make a complex system dramatically simpler. We describe lessons learned from reverse engineering the component with a variety of tools and redesigning it to be smaller, simpler and ...

Redesigning Air Traffic Control: An Exercise in Software Design

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 0 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 0 I E E E M a y / J u n e 2 0 0 0 I E E E S O F T W A R E 63 that basic techniques provided a major improvement. We took a component of a deployed air traffic control system written in about 80,000 lines of C++ code, replaced it with a new version in Java about one-fifth of the size, and demonstrated that the system still performed its primary functio...

How to Manage Failures in Air Traffic Control Software Systems

Safety Culture in Air Traffic Management: Air Traffic Control

In a joint research project – Human Factors in Air Navigation Services, HUFA – between the Swedish Civil Aviation Administration and Lund University the focus is on human and organizational factors and safety in air traffic control. The Swedish Air Navigation Services (ANS) are undergoing major organizational changes in order to adapt to changing demands on efficiency and technical development ...