Using Time to Control Adequacy

After adequacy, the time available is the second important variable which is poorly understood in the literature on reliability. Experimental approaches have often viewed time simply as a tool for measurement (reaction time or response time). The longer the time taken to respond to a stimulus, the more it has seemed natural to consider that the situation was complex to resolve or that the intellectual process being studied was deficient (this may be perception, reasoning or any other activity). 

More recently, time has become an object of study in its own right once again rather than simply a tool for measurement. The work done on dynamic environments has catalysed this revised approach [48]. 

Time is a safety management tool from two perspectives  

Air traffic controllers leave time to time to simplify their work. 

Morineau [49] shows, for example, when studying situations in air traffic control, that controllers only trigger the conflict processing system once all the elements of the conflict are present on the screen and all the means of 

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