Title :
Redesigning air traffic control: an exercise in software design
Author :
Jackson, Daniel ; Chapin, John
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
This case study demonstrates how basic software engineering techniques can make a complex system dramatically simpler. The authors describe lessons learned from reverse engineering an air traffic control system with a variety of tools and redesigning it to be smaller, simpler and more flexible
Keywords :
air traffic control; reverse engineering; software engineering; systems re-engineering; air traffic control system redesign; case study; complex system simplification; flexibility; reverse engineering; software design; software engineering techniques; Aerospace control; Air traffic control; Aircraft; Airports; Automation; Data structures; Feeds; Software design; Software tools; Switches;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE
