Cross-viewpoint Consistency in Accident Investigations
Alastair J. Telford, Christopher Johnson · Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) · 1996
Accident reports are typically divided into chapters which reflect the different perspectives of various specialists. It is sometimes the case that these alternative viewpoints lead to inconsistencies and omissions where an incident covered at length by one specialist may be ignored by another. This creates a problem in that the conclusions of the report may thus be muddled or incomplete and consequently lead to further errors of comprehension amongst those who need to understand the findings. Similarly, several different reports of the same accident may be produced. This creates problems for the companies and regulators which must act on the findings of these inconsistent accounts. It is, therefore, desirable to have a rigorous method for checking consistency between different chapters and accounts. We present the novel application of the idea of cross-viewpoint consistency, typically used in software engineering, to unify different accident perspectives. Furthermore, we propose a met...