Community Planning for Human Services

Planning for Future Urban Services in the Smart City Era: Integrating E-services in Urban Planning Process

Information and communication technology (ICT) has transformed how we live our lives and the way we interact in different contexts. Benefits of ICT and its upcoming efficiencies (i.e. energy efficiency) are becoming the heart of many public services’ reforms which have influenced the time, distance and space concepts. At present, not only there is a lack of clarity about what high-quality ICTba...

Ethics in family planning/reproductive health services

Planning for Semantic Web Services

Using Semantic Web ontologies to describe Web Services has proven to be useful for various different tasks including service discovery and composition. AI planning techniques have been employed to automate the composition of Web Services described this way. Planners use the description of the preconditions and effects of a service to do various sorts of reasoning about how to combine services i...

Web Services for Adaptive Planning

This paper presents the design and development of an adaptive planning system using the technology of Web services. The Web-based adaptive planning system consists of two modules that can work independently. The first one is called HAP-WS and is the Web service interface to the domain independent planner HAP (Highly Adjustable Planner) that can be customized through the adjustment of several pa...

Conservation Planning for Ecosystem Services

Despite increasing attention to the human dimension of conservation projects, a rigorous, systematic methodology for planning for ecosystem services has not been developed. This is in part because flows of ecosystem services remain poorly characterized at local-to-regional scales, and their protection has not generally been made a priority. We used a spatially explicit conservation planning fra...