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Multi-task situations where supervisor and computer have intersecting decision making responsibilities are discussed. Adaptive allocation of task responsibility is espoused and formulated as a multi-queue, multi-server situation with a pre-emptive but non-competitive service discipline. Average delay in task performance and percent of decisions performed by the computer are predicted via simulation as a function of number of tasks, human-computer speed mismatch, and probabilities of various types of computer error. Prerequisites to the real-world realization of adaptive human-computer multi-task systems are considered and two laboratory investigations in this area are discussed.
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Rouse, W.B. (1976). Adaptive Allocation of Decision Making Responsibility between Supervisor and Computer. In: Sheridan, T.B., Johannsen, G. (eds) Monitoring Behavior and Supervisory Control. NATO Conference Series, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2523-9_24
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