Behavioral Theories and Infrastructure Planning (2)

Planning Modulo Theories: Extending the Planning Paradigm

Considerable effort has been spent extending the scope of planning beyond propositional domains to include, for example, time and numbers. Each extension has been designed as a separate specific semantic enrichment of the underlying planning model, with its own syntax and customised integration into a planning algorithm. Inspired by work on SAT Modulo Theories (SMT) in the SAT community, we dev...

Cognitive and Behavioral Theories of Depression

Behavioral theories and the neurophysiology of reward.

The functions of rewards are based primarily on their effects on behavior and are less directly governed by the physics and chemistry of input events as in sensory systems. Therefore, the investigation of neural mechanisms underlying reward functions requires behavioral theories that can conceptualize the different effects of rewards on behavior. The scientific investigation of behavioral proce...

Infrastructure planning for carbon capture and storage

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is seen as one of the key technologies for cutting CO2 emissions from coal power plants. It is proposed that carbon capture and storage could reduce CO2 emissions to the atmosphere from a modern power plant by approximately 80-90%. Building and operating infrastructure for capturing, transporting, and storing CO2, however, is forecast to be expensive. To gain a ...

A Comparative Analysis of Behavioral Theories towards Farmers’ Water Conservation

According to experts, the inefficient agricultural sector has a dominant role in degrading water resources all over the world. Farmers’ conservational behavior is an important aspect of new integrated water management studies. Relevantly, various behavioral theories have been proposed in the field of environmental psychology. The main objective of the present comparative analysis and review stu...