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gy used in the guide is explained in the Glossary. The laboratory in the San Francisco Bay Area. fied using several measures of P300 and Slow Wave
guide provides insights into: how to implement sys- Thesis (M.A). amplitude. Classification accuracies of 85 percent
tems that automate expert domain knowledge and S. H. Nissen. May 90, 107p UCRL-LR-104227 were achieved with 25 trials. Results are discussed in
expert reasoning in the form of expert systems; the Contract W-7405-ENG-48 terms of potential enhancements for real-time record-
use of automated knowledge and the resulting com- Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC. ing.
mercial benefits to the organization; and the nature of Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche
tkhneoirw lceoddgief,ic artieoans onasi ngth eayn d relsautbej etcot ievxep ejrut dgseymsetnetmss., Tahned products. 102,248
aim of the guide is to help managers plan to take ad- The current study focused on a group of Chinese- PB91-107011/GAR PC A05/MF A05
vantage of expert systems technology and start man- American professionals working in a scientific environ- Office of Technology Assessment, Washington, DC.
aging knowledge within their organizations, to do so ment in the San Francisco Bay area. One of the goals Use of Integrity Tests for Pre-Employment Screen-
with confidence and decisiveness and to avoid waste- of the present study is to determine to what extent do ing.
ful pitfalls on the way. the Chinese cultural values impact job performance, Sep 90, 88p OTA-SET-442
interpersonal relationships and perception of job satis- Also available from Supt. of Docs.
faction. This was carried out by identifying the impor-
tant motivational factors and optimal working condi- An estimated 5,000 to 6,000 business establishments
tions which provided career satisfaction for the Chi- in the United States use honesty and integrity tests in
nese-American professionals. Comparisons were the process of screening and —- job applicants
Management Practice menatdse tob edtewteeernm inteh e dUiSf febroernnc esa,n d iff oarneyi, gni-nb otrheni r repseprocnedp-- floire vee mtphle otyemsetns ta.r e Apnrailncyisptasl lyf aumisleida r tow isthc retehne aipspsluiec anbtes-
tions relative to career satisfaction due to varying ac- for nonmanagerial, less-skilled jobs, such as conven-
102,242 culturation levels. In addition, this study identified bar- ience store employees and retail clerks. The report
N90-26695/8/GAR PC A02/MF A01 riers to career advancement and compared these bar- has defined honesty and integrity tests as written tests
Rolls-Royce Ltd., Derby —- on riers with the results of another survey on the Chinese- designed to identify individuals applying for work in
Making It Happen: Project American professionals Syn in government, indus- such jobs who have relatively high propensities to
G. Collis. c21 Jun 89, 9Pp NAOOCIS. eTN-90-07134 try and private sector in the Bay area. A structured steal pragng Ae property on the job, or who are likely to
Presented at the Lucas Seminar, Shirley, England, 21 survey questionnaire was designed by the investigator engage in behavior of a more generally ‘counterpro-
Jun. 1989. and sent to 167 Chinese-American professionals, ductive’ nature. Counterproductivity in this context
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concept as a master program is described. Central Labor, OTA examined available evidence on integrity
program management interfaces, culture and style are 102,246 tests, with emphasis on two basic questions: Has the
depicted. The program culture is based on the func- N90-25539/9/GAR research on integrity tests produced data that clearly
tions managing and achieving their commitments on (Order as N90-25503/5/GAR, PC a supports or dismisses the assertion that these tests
time. A small central team works with the customer A ) can predict dishonest behavior; What public policy
and across all internal functions on a by exception Harry G. Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research issues are raised by the use of integrity tests for pre-
basis to ensure that master program and engine deliv- Lab., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH employment screening and selection.
ery contracts are achieved on time. Performance-Based Workload Assessment: Allo-
cation rey and Added Task Sensitivity.
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Rolls-Royce Ltd., Derby (England). Annual Workshop on Space Operations Automation Northeast-Midwest Inst., Washington, DC.
Value of Real Experience. and Robotics (Soar 1989) p 329-335. Labor Market Information: Book 2. An Agenda for
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An interpretation of Computer Integrated Management encouraged the use of low-priority instructions for the tion, Washington, DC. Office of Researc and Devel-
(CIM) is presented. Techniques of computer engineer- added task. It was believed that such low-priority tasks opment.
ing and control systems engineering, embodying prin- would encourage subjects to split their available re-
ciples of topdown understanding and planning of the sources onare the two tasks. The primary task would The report evaluates the adequacy of current labor
business processes and their shared data needs, and be assigneda ll the resources it needed, and any re- market information (LMI) for planning and policymak-
bottom up implementation of simplified procedures maining reserve capacity would be assigned to the ing, discusses difficulties of providing timely data for
within the integration plan, were adopted. The need to secondary task. If the model were correct, this ap- current labor market problems and suggests reasons
understand the real overall business needs of the en- proach was expected to combine sensitivity to primary and methods for improving LMI sources to make them
terprise, and the understanding and integration of task difficulty with unintrusiveness to primary task per- more timely and responsive to current issues. Ideally, a
shared data as the vital technical element are pro- formance. The first studies of the current project dem- minimal increase of new data collection can be com-
posed approaches to CIM. onstrated that a high-priority added task, although in- bined with preservation of useful existing data sources,
trusive, could be more sensitive than the traditional with added costs to be justified by optimal utilization of
low-priority secondary task. These results suggested both new and existing data.
102,244 that a more appropriate model of the attentional ef-
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— Allocation Using Constraint Propaga- Bonn (Germany, F.R.).
tion. 102,247 Rechnergestuetzte Ausiese und _ rechnerges-
J. S. Rogers. May 90, 6p N90-25540/7/GAR tuetztes Training von Personen fuer komplexe
In NASA, Marshall Spano Flight Center, Fifth Confer- (Order as N90-25503/5/GAR, PC —— Fahr (Computer-aided
ence on Artificial Intelligence for Space Applications p 04) selection and computer-aided oe of person-
19-24. Ilinois Univ. at Urbana-Champaign. nel for complex aircraft control task: 4
Real-Time Measurement of Mental Workload: A 1989, 168p Rept nos. DGLR-89-03, ISBN 3-922010-
The concept of constraint propagation was discussed. Feasibility Study. 46-6
Performance increases are possible with careful appli- A. Kramer, D. Humphrey, E. Sirevaag, and A. In German. 31. DGLR expert committee meeting on
cation of these constraint mechanisms. The degree of Mecklinger. Mar 90, 7p computer-aided selection and computer-aided training
performance increase is related to the interdepend- Contracts NAG2-308, N00014-89-J-1493 of personne! for complex aircraft control tasks, Fuer-
ence of the different activities resource usage. Al- In NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Third stenfeldbruck (Germany, F.R.), 23-24 Nov 1988.
though this method of applying constraints to activities Annual Workshop on Space Operations Automation
and resources is often beneficial, it is obvious that this and Robotics (Soar 1989) p 339-345. This volume contains the presentations delivered at
is no panacea cure for the computational woes that the 31st meeting of the specialists committee on the
are experienced by dynamic resource allocation and The primary goal of the study was to explore the utility subject of ‘computer-aided selection and computer-
scheduling problems. A combined effort for execution of event-related brain potentials (ERP) as real-time aided training of personnel for complex aircraft control
optimization in all areas of the system during develop- measures of workload. To this end, subjects per- duties’. The presentations covered the following
ment and the selection of the appropriate develop- formed two different tasks both separately and togeth- topics: Research and work projects in military aviation
ment environment is still the best method of producing er. One task required that subjects monitor a bank of psychology, computer-aided aviation psychology se-
an efficient system. constantly changing gauges and detect critical devi- lection and training methodology for future flying per-
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