Two versions of an electronic checklist have been implemented in the Advanced Concepts Flight Simulator (ACFS) at NASA Ames Research Center. The two designs differ in the degree of pilot involvement in conducting the checklists. One version (manual-sensed), requires the crew to manually acknowledge the completion of each checklist item. The other version (automatic-sensed), automatically indica...

The choice of the bandwidth is a crucial issue for kernel density estimation. Among all the data-dependent methods for choosing the bandwidth, the plug-in method has shown a particularly good performance in practice. This procedure is based on estimating an asymptotic approximation of the optimal bandwidth, using two ‘pilot’ kernel estimation stages. Although two pilot stages seem to be enough ...

This paper describes the experience of QAST 2008, the second time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. Five sites submitted results for at least one of the five scenarios (lectures in English, meetings in English, broadcast news in French and European Parliament debates in English and Spanish). In order to assess the impact...

Underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) play an important role in a number of shallow and deepwater missions for marine science, oil and gas extraction, exploration and salvage. In these applications, the motions of the ROV are guided either by a human pilot on a surface support vessel through an umbilical cord providing power and telemetry, or by an automatic pilot. In the case of automat...

This paper discusses a case study that examined the influence of cultural, organizational and automation capability upon human trust in, and reliance on, automation. In particular, this paper focuses on the design and application of an extended case study methodology, and on the foundational lessons revealed by it. Experimental test pilots involved in the research and development of the US Air ...

Cultural heritage is one of the most valuable resources that describe the creative power of mankind. In this article we describe a total number of 96 experiments that have been submitted as contributions to the three subtasks of the Cultural Heritage in CLEF pilot evaluation lab. At the core of the majority of these experiments lies a prototype implementation for semantic enrichment based on DB...

This paper describes the realization of a Music Information Retrieval (MIR) pilot for a huge audio corpora of European cultural sound heritage, which was developed as part of the Europeana Sounds project. The demonstrator aimed at evaluating the applicability of technologies deriving from the MIR domain to content provided by various European digital libraries and audio archives. To approach th...

This teaching case discusses the challenges faced by the Indian Railways in contemplating the implementation of a new technology for tracking individual freight railcars (wagons). After exploring multiple ‘technological options’, the Indian Railways decided to undertake a pilot project based on time-tested Automatic Equipment Identification system using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tec...