Supporting nuclear safety culture assessment using Intelligent Decision System software

Dong Ling Xu, Da Ruan, Jian Bo Yang

    Research outputpeer-review

    Abstract

    This paper illustrates how efficiency, effectiveness, consistency and reliability of nuclear safety culture assessment can be improved by the Intelligent Decision System (IDS) tool. It describes how IDS can be used as both a knowledge management and assessment supporting tool for nuclear safety culture assessment using the IAEA Safety Culture Assessment Review Team (SCART) guidelines. Once the assessment knowledge is built into IDS, the tool provides support at the data gathering stage by retrieving the right guidance at when and where it is needed so that the assessment can be made more efficiently, consistently and objectively. At the Discussion and closing stage of the assessment, the tool generates aggregated assessment results for both a team of and individual reviewers in text and graphical formats. The text report highlights the strengths and the areas for improvement, including advice on how to improve and examples of best practices in the areas. The various graphical interfaces and charts provide side by side comparisons, panoramic view of the strengths and weaknesses, trends and profiles of assessment outcomes made by different reviewers, for different organisations or for the same organisation at different time. Those outcomes give a speedy and accurate account of the review so that discussions and feedback can be made more productively and constructively.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationIEEE SSCI 2011 - Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - MCDM 2011
    Subtitle of host publication2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision-Making
    Pages67-72
    Number of pages6
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2011
    Event2011 - SSCI Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision-Making (MCDM) - Paris
    Duration: 11 Apr 201115 Apr 2011

    Publication series

    NameIEEE SSCI 2011 - Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - MCDM 2011: 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision-Making

    Conference

    Conference2011 - SSCI Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence
    Abbreviated titleSSCI
    Country/TerritoryFrance
    CityParis
    Period2011-04-112011-04-15

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Computational Theory and Mathematics
    • Decision Sciences (miscellaneous)

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