Research Areas--Martha Grabowski

Research Areas

Our research focuses on several different areas:

Below find projects, papers and links that will be helpful in each of these research areas.

Impact of Technology in Safety-Critical Systems

Projects

Tug Escorts in Puget Sound (State of Washington, Department of Ecology, with Glosten Associates, Herbert Engineering, 2004-2005)
St. Lawrence Seaway Automatic Identification System (AIS) Performance Impact Study (US St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, 2002-2005)
Distributed Mobile Collaborative Networks (LeMoyne College, Warsaw University, 2002-2003)
Shipboard Display of Automatic Identification System (AIS) Information (National Research Council, US Coast Guard, 2001-2003)
Design of Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Navigation and Piloting System (Lockheed Martin, 2000)
Design and Evaluation of an Improved Continuous Operational Real-Time Monitoring System (US Department of Commerce, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 1999-2000)
Development, Test and Evaluation of SMARTBRIDGE (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Lockheed Martin, NOAA, Chevron Shipping Company; 1995-1998)
Shipboard Evaluation of Embedded Piloting Expert System (US Coast Guard R&D Center, 1993-1995)
Decision Support through Three-Dimensional Imaging in a Tactical Command and Control Environment (US Air Force Systems Command/Rome Laboratories, 1991-1993)
Development, Test and Evaluation of a Shipboard Piloting Expert System (US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration (MARAD), Exxon Shipping Company, Southwest Alaska Pilots Association, 1989-1993)
Development and Evaluation of a Piloting Expert System (US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration (MARAD), New York-New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Association, 1986-1987)

Books

Shipboard Automatic Identification System Displays: Meeting the Needs of Mariners. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2003. (Committee chair)
Crew Size and Maritime Safety. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1990. (Committee member)

Papers

Grabowski, M.R., Lepak, G. and Kulick, G. “Collaborative Technology Impacts in International Distributed Learning Environments,” in H. Ryu and D. Parsons (editors), Innovative Mobile Learning, New York: Idea Group Publishing, 2008.
Dhami, H. & Grabowski, M.R., “Technology Impacts over Time in a Safety-Critical System,” submitted to Decision Support Systems, August 2007.
Hanumantharao, S. & Grabowski, M. "Effects of Introducing Collaborative Technology on Communications in a Distributed Safety-Critical System ." International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 64:8, August 2006, 714-726.
Bayrak, T. & Grabowski, M.R. "Network Performance Impacts on Operators in Safety-Critical Systems," International Journal of Information Technology and Decision-Making. 5:1, March 2006, 173-194.
Coskun, E. & Grabowski, M.R. "Software Complexity and Its Impacts in Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Systems." Journal of Systems and Software. June 2005.
Grabowski, M.R. & Dhami, H. “Early Adoption Technology Performance Impacts: AIS on the St. Lawrence Seaway,” Journal of Navigation, 58:1, January 2005, 17-30.
Bayrak, T. & Grabowski, M.R. "Safety-Critical Wide Area Network Performance Evaluation," International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making. 2:4, December 2003.
Grabowski, M.R. and Sanborn, S.D. “Human Performance and Embedded Intelligent Technology in Safety-Critical Systems,” International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 58:6, June 2003, 637-660.
Grabowski, M.R., & Sanborn, S.D. "Evaluation of Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Systems," Decision Sciences, 32:1, Winter 2001, 95-123.
Grabowski, M.R. “Distributed Intelligent Navigation Systems,” Marine Technology, 36:3, July 1999, 175-182.
Litynski, D.M., Grabowski, M.R., and Wallace, W.A. "The Relationship between Three Dimensional Imaging and Group Decision Making: An Exploratory Study," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 27:4, July 1997, 402-411.
H. Sudhendar, and Grabowski, M.R., "Evolution of Intelligent Shipboard Piloting Systems: A Distributed System for the St. Lawrence Seaway," Journal of Navigation (U.K.), 49:3, September 1996, 362-376.
Grabowski, M.R. and Sanborn, S., "Integration and Preliminary Shipboard Observations of an Embedded Piloting Expert System," Marine Technology, 32:3, July 1995, 216-223.
Grabowski, M.R. and Sanborn, S. "Smart Charts, Smart Bridge: Observations of the Shipboard Piloting Expert System (SPES)." International Hydrographic Review, March 1995, 72:1, 125-139.
Grabowski, M.R. and Wallace, W.A., "An Expert System for Maritime Pilots: Its Design and Assessment Using Gaming," Management Science, 39:12, December 1993, 1506-1520.
Grabowski, M.R. and H. Hendrick, "How Low Can We Go?: Validation and Verification of a Decision Support System for Safe Shipboard Manning," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 40:1, February 1993, 41-53.
Grabowski, M.R., "Decision Support to Masters, Mates on Watch and Pilots: The Piloting Expert System," Journal of Navigation (UK), 43:3, Fall 1990, 364-384.
Grabowski, M.R., "The Piloting Expert System: Transition from Off‑Line Prototype to On‑Line Decision Support," Journal of the Institute of Navigation, 37:1, Spring 1990, 1-16.

Conference Proceedings

Grabowski, M.R. "Impacts of Next Generation Ship Navigation and Communication Systems," Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Application and Information Technology in the Maritime Industries (COMPIT '05). Hamburg, Germany, 8-11 May 2005.
Bayrak, T. & Grabowski, M.R. “Network Performance Impacts on Operators in Safety-Critical Systems,” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Boston, 20-23 November 2004. http://www.bus.ucf.edu/dsi2004/.
Grabowski, M.R. & Bayrak, T. “Holistic Evaluation of Real-Time Safety-Critical Large-Scale Networks,” Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems, Association for Information Systems (AIS), Tampa, Florida, 3-5 August 2003.
Hanamantharao, S. and Grabowski, M.R., "Impact of a Distributed Intelligent System in a Large Scale Safety Critical System," Research in Progress paper, International Conference on Information Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, December 1996.
Grabowski, M.R., "Decision Aiding Technology and Integrated Bridge Design," Proceedings of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Ship Technology and Research Symposium, New Orleans, 12‑15 April 1989, S5-3-1 to S5-3-11.

2. Embedded Intelligent Systems

Projects

Design of Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Naval Vessel Navigation and Piloting System (Lockheed Martin, 2000)
Surface Ship of the Future Automation Systems Development (Lockheed Martin, 1998-1999)
Development, Test and Evaluation of SmartBridge (DARPA, Lockheed Martin, Chevron Shipping, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 1995-1998)
Oil Pollution Research Grant/St. Lawrence Seaway Distributed Intelligent Piloting System (US Department of Transportation, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, 1994-1995)
Shipboard Evaluation of Embedded Piloting Expert System (US Coast Guard R&D Center, 1993-1995)
Development, Evaluation and Test of a Shipboard Piloting Expert System (US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, 1989-1993)
Development and Evaluation of a Piloting Expert System (US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, 1986-1987)

Books

Advances in Expert Systems for Management: Evaluation and Value in Knowledge-based Systems, Volume 2. (Co-editor with W.A. Wallace). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1997.
Advances in Expert Systems for Management, Volume 1. (Co-editor with W.A. Wallace). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1993.

Papers

Grabowski, M.R and Sanborn, S.D. “Human Performance and Embedded Intelligent Technology in Safety-Critical Systems,” International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 58:6, June 2003, 637-660.
Grabowski, M.R., & Sanborn, S.D. "Evaluation of Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Systems," Decision Sciences, 32:1, Winter 2001, 95-123.
Coskun, E. & Grabowski, M.R., “An Interdisciplinary Model of Complexity in Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Systems,” Information and Software Technology, 43:9, September 2001, 527-537.
Grabowski, M.R. "Distributed Intelligent Navigation Systems," Marine Technology, July 1999.
H. Sudhendar, and Grabowski, M.R., "Evolution of Intelligent Shipboard Piloting Systems: A Distributed System for the St. Lawrence Seaway," Journal of Navigation (U.K.), 49:3, September 1996, 362-376.

Grabowski, M.R. and Wallace, W.A., "An Expert System for Maritime Pilots: Its Design and Assessment Using Gaming," Management Science, 39:12, December 1993, 1506-1520.

Conference Proceedings

Coskun, E. & Grabowski, M.R., “Assessment of Intelligence Complexity in Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Systems,” Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2002, Gdansk, Poland, 6-8 June 2002.
Coskun, E. & Grabowski, M.R., “Two Perspectives of Intelligence Complexity in Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Systems,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Fuzzy Sets and Soft Computational Intelligence in Management and Industrial Engineering (FSSCIMIE 2002), Istanbul, Turkey, 29-31 May 2002.

Links

Decision Sciences
International Journal of Human-Computer Systems
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems
IEEE Distributed Systems On-Line
Embedded Intelligent Systems
Intelligent Inhabited Environments, U of Essex
NSF Division of Information and Intelligent Systems

3. Risk Analysis, Risk Mitigation in Safety-Critical Systems

Projects

Puget Sound Vessel Traffic Risk Analysis, BP Cherry Point Refinery, Washington State (BP, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Coast Guard, Ocean Advocates, in cooperation with the Puget Sound Pilots and the Washington State Department of Ecology, May 2006-May 2008).
Leading Safety Indicators in Marine Transportation (American Bureau of Shipping, Exxon-Mobil International, SeaRiver Maritime, Inc., OSG International, Maersk Lines, A.P. Moeller 2003-2008)
Prince William Sound Risk Assessment Overview (Prince William Sound Regional Citizens Advisory Council, Valdez, Alaska, 2005)
Tug Escorts and Risk in Puget Sound (State of Washington, Department of Ecology, with Glosten Associates, Herbert Engineering, 2004-2005)
Risk Analysis of California-Federal Water Quality and Reliability (California Federal Water Quality (CALFED), 2002)
Failure Not an Option: High Reliability Financial Telecommunications (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT), 2000-2001)
Risk Evaluation of Passenger Vessel Operations (Washington State Ferries, 1998-1999)
Evaluation of Maritime Risk: Port of Houston (Port of Houston Authority, 1997)
Evaluating and Monitoring Maritime Risk: Prince William Sound, Alaska (ARCO Marine Company, BP Oil Shipping, Chevron Shipping, SeaRiver Maritime, Inc., Tesoro, Inc., Prince William Sound Regional Citizens Advisory Council, State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, US Coast Guard, 1995-1997)
Evaluating and Monitoring Maritime Risk: Port of New Orleans (Port of New Orleans, 1994-1995)
Evaluating and Monitoring Maritime Risk: Puget Sound (State of Washington, Office of Marine Safety, 1993-1994)

Papers

Grabowski, M.R., Ayyalasomayajula, P. Merrick, J., & McCafferty, D. “Accident Precursors and Safety Nets: Leading Indicators of Tanker Operations Safety,” forthcoming in Maritime Policy and Management, April 2007.

Grabowski, M.R., Ayyalasomayajula, P., Merrick, J.R., Harrald, J.H. & Roberts, K.H. “Leading Indicators of Safety in Virtual Organizations,” forthcoming in Safety Science. DOI doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2006.09.007 , available on line 22 November 2006.

Dhami, H. & Grabowski, M.R., “Technology Impacts over Time in a Safety-Critical System,” submitted to Decision Support Systems, August 2007.

Merrick, J.R.W., Grabowski, M.R., Ayyalasomayajula, P., & Harrald, J.R. "Understanding Organizational Safety Using Value-Focused Thinking," Risk Analysis, 25:4, December 2005.

Merrick, J.R.W., van Dorp, J.R., Mazzuchi, T.A., Harrald, J.R., Spahn, J.E., & Grabowski, M.R., “The Prince William Sound Risk Assessment,” Interfaces, 32:6, November-December 2002, 25-40.

Van Dorp, J.R., Merrick, J.R.W., Harrald, J.R., Mazzuchi, T.A., and Grabowski, M.R. “A Risk Management Procedure for the Washington State Ferries,” Risk Analysis, 21:1, 2001.

Merrick, J.R.W., van Dorp, J.R., Harrald, J., Mazzuchi, T.A., Spahn, J.E., & Grabowski, M.R., “A Systems Approach to Managing Oil Transportation Risk in Prince William Sound,” Systems Engineering, 3:3, 2000, 128-142.

Grabowski, M.R., Merrick, J., Harrald, J.R., Mazzuchi, T.A., & van Dorp, J.R., “Risk Modeling in Distributed, Large-Scale Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, 30:6, November 2000, 651-660.

Grabowski, M. & Roberts, K.H., "Risk Mitigation in Virtual Organizations," Organization Science, 10:6, November/December 1999. Also in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 3:4, June 1998.

Harrald, J.R., Mazzuchi, T.A., Spahn, J., Van Dorp, R., Merrick, J., Shrestha, S., & Grabowski, M.R. "Using System Simulation to Model the Impact of Human Error in a Maritime System," Safety Science, 30, 1998, 235-247.

Grabowski, M.R. and Roberts, K.H. "Risk Mitigation in Large Scale Systems: Lessons from High Reliability Organizations," California Management Review, 39:4, Summer 1997, 152-162.

Conference Proceedings

Grabowski, M.R., Ayyalasomayajula, P., Wang, H., McCafferty, D., Merrick, J.R., Meador, M. & Kinney, C. “Accident Precursors and Safety Nets: Initial Results from the Leading Indicators of Maritime Safety Project,” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 13-17 November 2007.

Technical Papers

Grabowski, M.R., Ayyalasomayajula, P. & Wang, H. Leading Indicators of Tanker Safety. Houston, Texas: American Bureau of Shipping, Guidance Note, August 2007.

Links

Accident Analysis and Safety Links, Chris Johnson

4. Human and Organizational Error

Projects

Puget Sound Vessel Traffic Risk Analysis, BP Cherry Point Refinery, Washington State (BP, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Coast Guard, Ocean Advocates, in cooperation with the Puget Sound Pilots and the Washington State Department of Ecology, May 2006-May 2008).
Leading Safety Indicators in Marine Transportation (American Bureau of Shipping, Exxon-Mobil International, SeaRiver Maritime, Inc., OSG, International, Maersk Lines, A.P. Moeller, 2003-2008)
Committee on Human Factors (National Research Council, 1998-2004)
Failure Not an Option: High Reliability Financial Telecommunications (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT), 2000-2001)
Symposium on Risk Assessment Methodologies Applied to Accident Prevention in Congested Ports and Waterways (National Research Council, 1998-1999)
Risk Evaluation of Passenger Vessel Operations (Washington State Ferries, 1998-1999)
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation of Human Factors (US Coast Guard R&D Center, 1994-1999)
Shipboard Manning Model Evaluation (U.S. Coast Guard R&D Center, 1994-1997)
Human Factors in Maritime Shipping (Prince William Sound Regional Citizens Advisory Committee, Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Committee, 1994)
Oil Spill Prevention Plan Review (State of Washington, Office of Marine Safety, 1993-1994)
Smaller Crews and Maritime Safety (National Research Council, 1988-1990)

Papers

Grabowski, M.R., Ayyalasomayajula, P., Merrick, J.R., Harrald, J.H. & Roberts, K.H. “Leading Indicators of Safety in Virtual Organizations,” forthcoming in Safety Science. DOI doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2006.09.007 , available on line 22 November 2006.
Roberts, K.H. & Grabowski, M.R. “Risk Mitigation in Health Care Systems of Organizations,” in M.S. Bogner (ed.), Human Error in Medicine, 2^nd edition. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Press, 2008.
Grabowski, M. & Roberts, K.H., "Risk Mitigation in Virtual Organizations," Organization Science, 10:6, November/December 1999. Also in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 3:4, June 1998.
Grabowski, M.R. and Roberts, K.H. "Risk Mitigation in Large Scale Systems: Lessons from High Reliability Organizations," California Management Review, 39:4, Summer 1997, 152-162.
Roberts, K.H. and Grabowski, M.R. "Organizations, Technology and Structuring," in S. R. Clegg, C. Hardy, and W. Nord (eds.), Handbook of Organization Studies. London: Sage Publications Ltd., 1996, 409-423.
Grabowski, M. R. and Roberts, K., "Human and Organizational Error in Large Scale Systems," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 26:1, January 1996, 1-16.
Grabowski, M.R. and H. Hendrick, "How Low Can We Go?: Validation and Verification of a Decision Support System for Safe Shipboard Manning," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 40:1, February 1993, 41-53.

Conference Proceedings, Presentations

Grabowski, M.R. "Leading Indicators of Safety in Virtual Organizations," Keynote address, SINTEF, Norwegian Scientific and Cultural Technical Foundation, Symposium on Human Factors and Control, Halden, Norway, 19-20 April 2006.
Roberts, K.H. & Grabowski, M.R. “Coordinating at the Interstices: Improving Reliability in Health Care.” Symposium on Coordination of Expertise in High Reliability Work Environments. Academy of Management Meetings, Denver, Colorado, 9-12 August 2002.

Links

Human Factors
- Human Factors and Ergonomic Society
- Bad Human Factors Design
Fatigue

Sleep Research

5. Mobile Computing, Distributed Collaboration

Projects

St. Lawrence Seaway AIS Performance Impact Study (St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, 2002-2005)
Distributed Mobile Collaborative Networks (LeMoyne College, Warsaw University, 2002-2003)
Shipboard Display of AIS Information (National Research Council, 2001-2003)

Papers

Grabowski, M.R., Lepak, G. and Kulick, G. “Collaborative Technology Impacts in International Distributed Learning Environments,” in H. Ryu and D. Parsons (editors), Innovative Mobile Learning, New York: Idea Group Publishing, 2008.
Hanumantharao, S. & Grabowski, M. "Effects of Introducing Collaborative Technology on Communications in a Distributed Safety-Critical System ." International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 64:8, August 2006, 714-726.
Grabowski, M.R., "Distributed Intelligent Navigation Systems," Marine Technology, July 1999.
Litynski, D.M., Grabowski, M.R., and Wallace, W.A. "The Relationship between Three Dimensional Imaging and Group Decision Making: An Exploratory Study," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, 27:4, July 1997, 402-411.

Conference Proceedings

"Early Adoption of Technology Performance Impacts: AIS on the St. Lawrence Seaway." Marine Transportation Systems Research and Development Technology Conference, Washington, DC: 15-17 November 2004.

Links

Mobile Computing at U Washington
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
U of Maryland Mobile Computing and Multimedia Laboratory
Distributed Collaborative Work
Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory

6. Software Complexity

Projects

Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Naval Vessel Navigation and Piloting System Design (Lockheed Martin, 2000)
Surface Ship of the Future Automation Systems Development (Lockheed Martin, 1998-1999)
Development, Test and Evaluation of SmartBridge (DARPA, Lockheed Martin, Chevron Shipping, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 1995-1998)

Papers

Coskun, E. & Grabowski, M.R. "Software Complexity and Its Impacts in Safety-Critical Human-Computer Systems," Journal of Systems & Software, June 2005.
Coskun, E. & Grabowski, M.R. "Impacts of User Interface Complexity on User Acceptance and Performance in Safety-Critical Systems," Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 2:1, February 2005.
Coskun, E. & Grabowski, M.R. "Software Complexity Impacts in Safety-Critical Environments," submitted to European Journal of Information Systems, December 2003.
Coskun, E. & Grabowski, M.R., “An Interdisciplinary Model of Complexity in Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Systems,” Information and Software Technology, 43, 2001, 527-537.

Conference Proceedings

Coskun, E. & Grabowski, M.R., "User Interface Complexity in Safety-Critical Systems," Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2003, Crete, Greece, 22-27 June 2003.
Coskun, E. & Grabowski, M.R., "User Interface Complexity Assessment in Large-Scale Safety-Critical Environments," Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Angers, France: L'Ecole Superieure d'Electronique de l'Ouest, 23-26 April 2003.
Coskun, E. & Grabowski, M.R., “Assessment of Intelligence Complexity in Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Systems,” Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2002, Gdansk, Poland, 6-8 June 2002.
Coskun, E. & Grabowski, M.R., “Two Perspectives of Intelligence Complexity in Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Systems,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Fuzzy Sets and Soft Computational Intelligence in Management and Industrial Engineering (FSSCIMIE 2002), Istanbul, Turkey, 29-31 May 2002.
Coskun, E. & Grabowski, M.R., “Complexity in Embedded Intelligent Real Time Systems,” International Conference on Complexity and Complex Systems, Warwick, U.K., 19-20 September 2000.
Coskun, E. & Grabowski, M.R., "Complexity in Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Systems, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 1999, Charlotte, North Carolina, December 1999.

Links

7. Network Performance Analysis

Projects

St. Lawrence Seaway AIS Performance Impact Study (St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, 2002-2005)
Distributed Mobile Collaborative Networks (LeMoyne College, Warsaw University, 2002-2003)
Failure not an Option: High Reliability Financial Telecommunications (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT), 2000-2001)
Design and Evaluation of an Improved Continuous Operational Real-Time Monitoring System (CORMS) (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 1999-2000)
Oil Pollution Research Grant/St. Lawrence Seaway Distributed Intelligent Piloting System (US Department of Transportation, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, 1994-1995)

Papers

Bayrak, T. & Grabowski, M.R. "Network Performance Impacts on Operators in Safety-Critical Systems," International Journal of Information Technology and Decision-Making, 5:1, March 2006, 173-194.
Bayrak, T. & Grabowski, M.R. "Safety-Critical Wide Area Network Performance Evaluation," International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making. 2:4, December 2003.

Conference Proceedings

Bayrak, T. & Grabowski, M.R. "Network Performance Impacts on Operators in Safety-Critical Systems," Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute. Boston, Massachusetts, 20-23 November 2004.

Grabowski, M.R. & Bayrak, T. "Holistic Evaluation of Real-Time Safety-Critical Large-Scale Networks," Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2003, Tampa, Florida, 3-5 August 2003.

Bayrak, T. & Grabowski, M.R., “Real-time Safety-Critical Wide Area Networks,” Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2002, Dallas, Texas, 9-11 August 2002.

Bayrak, T. & Grabowski, M.R., “Safety-Critical Wide Area Network Performance Evaluation,” Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2002, Gdansk, Poland, 6-8 June 2002.
Bayrak, T. & Grabowski, M.R. "Evaluation of Safety-Critical Wide-Area Networks," Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2001, Boston, Massachusetts, 3-5 August 2001.

Links

8. Knowledge-Based Systems

Projects

Design of Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Naval Vessel Navigation and Piloting System (Lockheed Martin, 2000)
Design and Evaluation of an Improved Continuous Operational Real-time Monitoring System (CORMS) (US Department of Commerce, National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 1999-2000)
Surface Ship of the Future Automation Systems Development (Lockheed Martin, 1998-1999)
Development, Test and Evaluation of SmartBridge (DARPA, Lockheed Martin, Chevron Shipping, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 1995-1998)
Shipboard Evaluation of Embedded Piloting Expert System (US Coast Guard R&D Center, 1993-1995)
Oil Pollution Research Grant/St. Lawrence Seaway Distributed Intelligent Piloting System (US Department of Transportation, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, 1994-1995)
Development, Evaluation and Test of a Shipboard Piloting Expert System (US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, 1989-1993)
On-Scene Coordinators' Decision-Making Training Objectives (US Coast Guard R&D Center, 1992-1993)
Decision Support through Three-Dimensional Imaging in a Tactical Command and Control Environment (US Air Force Systems Command/Rome Laboratories, 1991-1993)
Development and Evaluation of a Piloting Expert System (US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, 1986-1987)

Books

Advances in Expert Systems for Management: Evaluation and Value in Knowledge-based Systems, Volume 2 (co-editor with W.A. Wallace), Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1997.

Advances in Expert Systems for Management, Volume 1, (co‑editor with W.A. Wallace), Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1993.

Papers

Grabowski, M.R. & Sanborn, S. "Human Performance and Embedded Intelligent Technology in Safety-Critical Systems," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 58:6, June 2003, 637-660.
Grabowski, M.R. & Sanborn, S. "Evaluation of Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Systems," Decision Sciences, 32:1, Winter 2001, 95-123.
Sudhendar, H. & Grabowski, M. "Evolution of Intelligent Shipboard Piloting Systems: A Distributed System for the St. Lawrence Seaway," Journal of Navigation (UK), 49:3, September 1996, 362-376.
Grabowski, M.R. and Sanborn, S., "Integration and Preliminary Shipboard Observations of an Embedded Piloting Expert System," Marine Technology, 32:3, July 1995, 216-223.
Grabowski, M.R. and Wallace, W.A., "An Expert System for Maritime Pilots: Its Design and Assessment Using Gaming," Management Science, 39:12, December 1993, 1506-1520.

Links

Knowledge Acquisition
Knowledge Representation
- Intro to KR

Knowledge Management

KBS Evaluation

9. Maritime Research

Projects

Puget Sound Vessel Traffic Risk Analysis, BP Cherry Point Refinery, Washington State (BP, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Coast Guard, Ocean Advocates, in cooperation with the Puget Sound Pilots and the Washington State Department of Ecology, May 2006-May 2008).
Leading Safety Indicators in Marine Transportation (American Bureau of Shipping, Exxon-Mobil International, SeaRiver Maritime, Inc., OSG International, Maersk Lines, A.P. Moeller, 2003-2008)
Prince William Sound Risk Assessment Overview (Prince William Sound Regional Citizens Advisory Council, 2005)
Tug Escorts in Puget Sound (State of Washington, Department of Ecology, with Glosten Associates, Herbert Engineering, 2004-2005)
Leading Safety Indicators of Risk in Marine Transportation (American Bureau of Shipping, Exxon-Mobil International, SeaRiver Maritime, Inc., 2003-2005)
St. Lawrence Seaway AIS Performance Impact Study (U.S. St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, 2002-2005)
Shipboard Display of Automatic Identification Systems Information (National Research Council, 2001-2003)
Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Naval Vessel Navigation and Piloting System Design (Lockheed Martin, 2000)
Design and Evaluation of an Improved Continuous Operational Real-Time Monitoring System (CORMS) (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 1999-2000)
Surface Ship of the Future Automation Systems Development (Lockheed Martin, 1998-1999)
Risk Evaluation of Passenger Vessel Operations (Washington State Ferries, 1998-1999)
Symposium on Risk Assessment Methodologies Applied to Accident Prevention in Congested Ports and Waterways (National Research Council, 1998-1999)
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation of Human Factors (US Coast Guard R&D Center, 1994-1999)
Development, Test and Evaluation of SmartBridge (DARPA, Lockheed Martin, Chevron Shipping, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 1995-1998)
Evaluation of Maritime Risk: Port of Houston (Port of Houston Authority, 1997)
Evaluating and Monitoring Maritime Risk: Prince William Sound, Alaska (ARCO Marine Company, BP Oil Shipping, Chevron Shipping, SeaRiver Maritime, Inc., Tesoro, Inc., Prince William Sound Regional Citizens Advisory Council, State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, US Coast Guard, 1995-1997)
Shipboard Manning Model Evaluation (U.S. Coast Guard R&D Center, 1994-1997)
Evaluating and Monitoring Maritime Risk: Port of New Orleans (Port of New Orleans, 1994-1995)
Oil Pollution Research Grant/St. Lawrence Seaway Distributed Intelligent Piloting System (US Department of Transportation, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, 1994-1995)
Human Factors in Maritime Shipping (Prince William Sound Regional Citizens Advisory Committee, Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Committee, 1994)
Shipboard Evaluation of Embedded Piloting Expert System (US Coast Guard R&D Center, 1993-1995)
Oil Spill Prevention Plan Review (State of Washington, Office of Marine Safety, 1993-1994)
Evaluating and Monitoring Maritime Risk: Puget Sound (State of Washington, Office of Marine Safety, 1993-1994)
Development, Evaluation and Test of a Shipboard Piloting Expert System (US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, 1989-1993)
Development and Evaluation of a Piloting Expert System (US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, 1986-1987)
Smaller Crews and Maritime Safety (National Research Council, 1988-1990)

Books

Shipboard Automatic Identification System Displays: Meeting the Needs of Mariners. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2003. (Committee chair).
Minding the Helm: Advances in Marine Navigation and Piloting. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1994. (Committee chair, 1993-1994)
Crew Size and Maritime Safety. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1988. (committee member)

Papers

Dhami, H. & Grabowski, M.R., “Technology Impacts over Time in a Safety-Critical System,” submitted to Decision Support Systems, August 2007.

Grabowski, M.R., Ayyalasomayajula, P., Merrick, J.R., Harrald, J.H. & Roberts, K.H. “Leading Indicators of Safety in Virtual Organizations,” forthcoming in Safety Science. DOI doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2006.09.007 , available on line 22 November 2006.

Hanumantharao, S. & Grabowski, M. "Effects of Introducing Collaborative Technology on Communications in a Distributed Safety-Critical System ." International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 64:8, August 2006, 714-726.

Merrick, J.R.W., Grabowski, M.R., Ayyalasomayajula, P., & Harrald, J.R. "Understanding Organizational Safety Using Value-Focused Thinking," Risk Analysis, 25:4, December 2005.

Grabowski, M.R. & Dhami, H. “Early Adoption Technology Performance Impacts: AIS on the St. Lawrence Seaway,” Journal of Navigation, 58:1, January 2005, 17-30.

Grabowski, M.R. & Sanborn, S. "Human Performance and Embedded Intelligent Technology in Safety-Critical Systems," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 58:6, June 2003, 637-660.

Merrick, J.R.W., van Dorp, J.R., Mazzuchi, T.A., Harrald, J.R., Spahn, J.E., & Grabowski, M.R., “The Prince William Sound Risk Assessment,” Interfaces, 32:6, November-December 2002, 25-40.

Van Dorp, J.R., Merrick, J.R.W., Harrald, J.R., Mazzuchi, T.A., and Grabowski, M.R. “A Risk Management Procedure for the Washington State Ferries,” Risk Analysis, 21:1, 2001.

Grabowski, M.R. "Marine Navigation," in McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing, 2001, 252-254.

Merrick, J.R.W., van Dorp, J.R., Harrald, J., Mazzuchi, T.A., Spahn, J.E., & Grabowski, M.R., “A Systems Approach to Managing Oil Transportation Risk in Prince William Sound,” Systems Engineering, 3:3, 2000, 128-142.

Grabowski, M.R., Merrick, J., Harrald, J.R., Mazzuchi, T.A., & van Dorp, J.R., “Risk Modeling in Distributed, Large-Scale Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, 30:6, November 2000, 651-660.

Grabowski, M.R. “Distributed Intelligent Navigation Systems,” Marine Technology, July 1999.

Harrald, J.R., Mazzuchi, T.A., Spahn, J., Van Dorp, R., Merrick, J., Shrestha, S., & Grabowski, M.R. "Using System Simulation to Model the Impact of Human Error in a Maritime System," Safety Science, 30, 1998, 235-247.
H. Sudhendar, and Grabowski, M.R., "Evolution of Intelligent Shipboard Piloting Systems: A Distributed System for the St. Lawrence Seaway," Journal of Navigation (U.K.), 49:3, September 1996, 362-376.

Grabowski, M.R. and Wallace, W.A., "An Expert System for Maritime Pilots: Its Design and Assessment Using Gaming," Management Science, 39:12, December 1993, 1506-1520.

Grabowski, M.R. and H. Hendrick, "How Low Can We Go?: Validation and Verification of a Decision Support System for Safe Shipboard Manning," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 40:1, February 1993, 41-53.

Articles

Grabowski, M.R., Vortmann, R., Cambridge, J. & Johnson, P. “The Marine Board.” Coast Guard Proceedings. Summer 2007, 23-26. http://www.uscg.mil/proceedings, 25 July 2007.

Grabowski, M.R. “Risk in the 21^st Century Marine Transportation System.” Transportation Research News, July/August 1999.

Presentations

"Leading Indicators of Safety in Virtual Organizations," Keynote address, SINTEF, Norwegian Scientific and Cultural Technical Foundation, Symposium on Human Factors and Control, Halden, Norway, 19-20 April 2006.

"Early Adoption of Technology Performance Impacts: AIS on the St. Lawrence Seaway." Marine Transportation Systems Research and Development Technology Conference, Washington, DC: 15-17 November 2004.

“Display of AIS Information,” International Association of Lighthouse Authorities Workshop on Training the VTS Operator for the AIS World, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 3-7 February 2003.

“The Future of Integrated Bridge Systems,” Integrated Bridge and Navigation Systems—User Enhanced Designs. Conference of the Nautical Institute. London, 13-14 November 2002.

Grabowski, M.R. “Navigational Aids and the Human Element: The Intelligent Bridge,” Proceedings of the Safer Seas: Marine Safety and Environmental Protection Conference, 11-12 March 2002, Brest, France.
"Performance Evaluation of Embedded Intelligent Ship Control Systems," U.S. Office of Naval Research Workshop on Intelligent Ships, Navy Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence and U.S. Office of Naval Research, Washington, D.C., 6 March 2000.

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