Planning Routes Across Economic Terrains: Maximizing Utility, Following Heuristics

Planning Routes Across Economic Terrains: Maximizing Utility, Following Heuristics

We designed an economic task to investigate human planning of routes in landscapes where travel in different kinds of terrain incurs different costs. Participants moved their finger across a touch screen from a starting point to a destination. The screen was divided into distinct kinds of terrain and travel within each kind of terrain imposed a cost proportional to distance traveled. We varied ...

Utility Functions and Heuristics for Resource-Bounded Planning Applications

This paper proposes a structure for utility functions that are useful when modeling and solving important classes of practical planning applications--problems that are not adequately characterized by an additive utility function, but still have some additive structure. The structure is Xu(t)*mod(t,...) where is a function of how and when a single task is completed and rood(t,...) captures the e...

Questioning the Uneven Terrains of Economic Globalization

The issue of economic globalization and global economic change has been a subject of immense academic research in the past two decades. The Janus face of economic globalization, however, continues to obfuscate our understanding of its complex processes and alleged geographical outcomes. In this paper, I aim to re-present the indispensable role of geography in conceptualizing economic globalizat...

Agent route planning in complex terrains

For many autonomous agents, such as mobile robots, autonomous vehicles and Computer Generated Forces, route planning in complex terrain is a critical task, as many of the agent’s higher-level goals can only be accomplished if the agent is in the right place at the right time. The route planning problem is often formulated as one of finding a minimum-cost route between two locations in a digitis...

A Transmission Expansion Planning Model for Maximizing Merchant Investment