Multitasking strategies in support of a knowledge-based operator companion

Today's operator, of nuclear-electric generating stations and chemical process plants functions in a data and information rich environment. In an effort to aid such operators, the structure of a real-time knowledge-based advisor is herein investigated for the central sampling system at Pt. Lepreau Generating Station. Human expertise (inherently symbolic or pattern recognition based) must be married to the speed and pervasiveness of computerized …