Agency Coordination, State and Public Involvement in Resource Planning

Agency transformation and state public utility commissions

The demise of public utility commissions has been periodically predicted (sometimes hoped for). In their long history they have been attacked by critics as ineffective, inefficient, expensive, or unnecessary. Further, the demonstrated survivability of the commission concept has often been uncharitably attributed to powerful political constituencies, self-preservation maneuverings by commissione...

Public sector enterprise resource planning

Thomas R. Gulledge and Rainer A. Sommer George Mason University Enterprise Engineering Laboratory, MS 2E4 Fairfax, Virginia 22030-4444 USA http://www.pac.gmu.edu/ Summary The management of the Department of Defense (DoD) enterprise must change. Since 1989, the DoD has “chronically under-funded its installations’ base support services and facilities as evidenced by an increasing backlog of maint...

An Untapped Resource: Patient and Public Involvement in Implementation; Comment on “Knowledge Mobilization in Healthcare Organizations: A View From the Resource-Based View of the Firm”

This commentary considers the potential role of patient and public involvement in implementation. Developing an analytical thread from the resource-based view of the Firm, we argue that this involvement may create unique resources that have the capacity to enhance the impact of implementation activity for healthcare organisations.

Peer Review, Public and Washington State Agency Comments & Responses

Multi-Agent Planning and Coordination Under Resource Constraints

The research described in this thesis stems from ROBOCARE1, a three year research project aimed at developing software and robotic technology for providing intelligent support for elderly people. This thesis deals with two problems which have emerged in the course of the project’s development: Multi-agent coordination with scarce resources. Multi-agent planning is concerned with automatically d...