TRUSTWORTHINESS OF COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS

Abstract The effectiveness and safety of large scale technological systems of all kinds is more and more dependent on their command and control. The effectiveness of command and control, in turn, is closely related to perceived trust in them, by operators, managers, and society as a whole. This paper examines concepts of trust, both rational and irrational, and both as cause and effect, and suggests some possibilities for quantitative modeling.