Safety in aviation - critical situations in the aspect of the theory of subjective analysis

Abstract

The article discusses one of the hypotheses of the theory of making decisions in emergency situations. The methodology developed in recent years to determine the probability of a dangerous situation, using subjective analysis, and in particular the function of entropy, gives a new look to the agent, as the decision-maker responsible for security in the structure of the active system. The following publication attempts to signal issues affecting the borderline of various areas of knowledge. Analogously to information theory, where the mathematics-computer scientist Claude E. Shannon introduced the probabilistic concept of entropy, it is possible to determine entropy in the considerations of the theory of choice, which is directly related to making decisions in critical situations. In some works, which were quoted in the paper, the function was called "subjective entropy". It is closely related to the concept of information value. It was shown how the use of the maximum entropy principle of a dynamic system's state can be an effective research instrument determining the security stock.