Socio-technical Decision Support in Air Navigation Systems: Emerging Research and Opportunities (Advances in Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering)

The integration of technology into the aviation system planning has allowed for more stable, yet increasingly complex, models that enable better analysis techniques and new approaches to decision-making. These modern advances ensure higher productivity in addressing various planning problems. Socio-Technical Decision Support in Air Navigation Systems: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical scholarly resource that contains a systematic analysis of formalized factors affecting socio-technical systems operators and how these factors influence decision-making process of professional and non-professional activities in air navigation systems. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as dimensional modeling, applications of decision support systems, and semantic analysis, this book is geared towards academicians, future pilots, aviation dispatchers, engineers, managers, and students.

Tetiana Shmelova , Doctor of Science, Professor of Department of Air Navigation Systems in National Aviation University (Ukraine). Areas of Scientific Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Mathematical Models of Decision-Making by operators in the Air Navigation System, especially in Emergency; Decision Support Systems; Research of Air Navigation system as Socio-technical system; Professional Effectiveness using Aviation Sociometry and Socionics; Management and Marketing in aviation; Information technology and Informatics of Decision-Making in the Air Navigation System; Problems of Human Factors in aviation. Author of more than 300 scientific articles, books, methodical manuals, copyright certificates, guides, monographs in fields of aviation, economics, mathematics, the theory of system. Teaching courses: Decision Making; Mathematical Programming; Effectiveness of Air Traffic Management; Effectiveness of Unmanned Systems; Artificial Intelligence.

Yuliya Sikirda is Associate Professor of Management, Economy, Law and Tourism Department at the Flight Academy of National Aviation University. Has graduated from the Flight Academy of National Aviation University (former State Flight Academy of Ukraine) in 2001, received a Master degree on specialty “Air Traffic Services” specialization “Air Traffic Control”. Has got a diploma of PhD in Technical Sciences on specialty “Automated Control Systems and Advanced Information Technologies” (2004). PhD thesis “Modelling of Decision Support System for an Air Traffic Controller in Flight Emergency Situations”, the thesis has defended in Kyiv Automation Institute. In 2006 has received an attestat of Associate Professor of Management and Economy Department. Since 2014 is the member of the specialized scientific council for the defense of dissertations for PhD in Technical Sciences on the specialty “Navigation and Motion Control”. The author and co-author of about 180 scientific works, including three manuscripts and more than 40 articles in specialized scientific publications, three copyright certificates on computer programs. Together with the scientific work has actively engaged in the methodological provision of the educational process, during the years of labor activity above 80 teaching and methodological works have been issued. Areas of scientific interests: increasing of the decision making efficiency by the human-operator of the Air Navigation System in flight emergencies; assessment of the influence of aviation enterprises’ internal and external management environment factors on the activity of the Socio-technical System’s operator. Teaching courses: “Introduction to the Specialty”, “Transport and Transport Infrastructure”, “Information Systems in Management”, “Methodology of Scientific Researches”, “Mathematical Modelling of Professional Tasks”.

Yury N. Kovalyov , Doctor of Technical Science, Professor Head of Industrial Design and Computer Technologies Department of the Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative Applied Arts and Design, Ukraine. Author of 233 scientific publications (5 monographs, 4 textbooks) in the fields of geometry foundations, mathematical modeling and multicriteria optimization of complex systems and human-machine systems, habitat design, sociometry, psychology. Hobbies: poetry (author of 2 books), philosophy, yoga, sport, travel.