Queueing network modeling of human performance of concurrent spatial and verbal tasks

Modelling level 1 situation awareness in driving: A cognitive architecture approach

“…In order to understand the process of modelling SA using QN-ACT-R-SA, I provide an overview of how the cognitive processes within QN-ACT-R function (Figure 3.1). Within the QN-ACT-R cognitive architecture, the queuing networks (i.e., QN) components carry the capacity for multi-task performance modelling [76], and ACT-R components maintain the ability to simulate cognitive processes [71]. Integrating both architectures provides the capability to model complex cognitive and multi-task scenarios.…”

Safe manning of merchant ships: an approach and computer tool

“…To be able to predict operators' performance, several engineering and psychological theories and models have been developed. Reviews of models of multiple task processing and related topics can be found in Wickens (1992) and Liu (1997). In general, engineering theories of human behaviour are concerned with describing gross human behaviours rather than the cognitive or psychomotor mechanisms that underlie them Pew and Mavor (1998).…”

“…A prominent theory in this regard is the single-channel theory of selective attention, on which many engineering models of human performance have been founded. The models view human performance as a single server queuing problem, or multiple task sequencing problem, in which a set of tasks or diverse sources of information are queued for service from the single-server human information processing system Liu (1997). The behaviour of systems of this kind can either be modelled by queuing theory or simulated by some modelling software that can imitate the behaviour of a queuing system.…”

“…Task analyses organised by task sequence are the basis for the modelling that is often referred to as task network modelling Laughery, Lebiere, and Archer (2006), Laughery and Corker (1997). Applications of queuing systems and task network modelling to human performance modelling can be found in DiVita, Morris, and Osga (2005), Kozine (2007), Liu (1997), Mitchell and Cummings (2005), Wickens (1992).…”

A Review of Human Performance Models for Prediction of Driver Behavior and Interactions With In-Vehicle Technology

“…These models were able to overcome the limitations in simple computational models and modeled driver’s performance. The QN family of models were based on queuing network (Liu, 1996, 1997) and were extended to models including QN-MHP (integration of the queuing network approach and the symbolic approach), QN-ACTR (Cao & Liu, 2013), and QN-ACTR-SA (QN-ACTR-Situational Awareness) (Rehman et al, 2019). Models such as QN-ACES (Liu, 2009) integrated ACT-R, Capacity-Constrained Collaborative Activation Based Production System (CAPS) (Just & Carpenter, 1992), Executive-Process Interactive Control (EPIC) (Kieras & Meyer, 1995), and State, Operator, And Result (SOAR) (Laird et al, 1991).…”