A novel and generic approach named as "history-oriented envisioning" is proposed to qualitatively envision all the possible and the sound situations focusing on our intended partial behaviors and actions of an objective system. Some basic notations called a "partial history" and a "partial situation" are introduced as the extensions of the conventional history and its situations representing qu...

This paper investigates the development and implementation of a generic off-the-shelf computer package and the competing pressures for standardisation and differentiation as this package is made to fit new organisational settings. The particular focus is on an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and its application within universities. In order for the ERP system to fit this setting a new...

Care pathways are excellent tools for the standardization of care delivery and the improvement of clinical efficiency. The high dynamism and unpredictability of the clinical environment require pathways to be adaptable to the deviations that may arise during their execution. In this work we present a methodology for the identification, monitoring, detection and managing of these deviations. Suc...

Motivated by fluid analogies, artificial harmonic potentials can eliminate local m in ima problems in robot path planning. I n this paper, simple analytical solut ions t o planar harmonic potentials are derived using tools f r o m fluid mechanics, and are applied t o two-dimensional planning among multiple moving obstacles. These closed-form solutions enable real-time computation to be readily ...

1. introduction language teachers frequently observe a gap between their students' potential competence and their performance in the class. anderson (1993) attributes this to the fact that human has a limited processing capacity and is not able to attend to various aspects of a task simultaneously. this limitation causes l2 learners not to be able to focus on both meaning and form at the same t...

Incorporating managerial flexibility in an innovative R&D project is important, because managers face greater uncertainty in today’s competitive and dynamic changing environment. It is essential to bring managerial flexibility into R&D project planning to decrease technical and market risks, while increasing potential market value. The objective of this paper is to develop a flexibility plannin...

In this commentary I argue that although pddl2.1 is a very useful standard for the planning competition, its design does not properly consider the issue of domain modeling. Hence, I would not advocate its use in specifying planning domains outside of the context of the planning competition. Rather, the field needs to explore different approaches and grapple more directly with the problem of eff...

application to the type of situations in which it was developed. The wide adoption of high-speed motors and group clinical procedures would alter some of the data presented. The methods developed for these and similar studies, the experience gained in conducting them, and the data collected should be useful as guides in developing the protocols for pilot-studies. To get the maxiinum from the pr...

Intentional use of contact gains ground in the motion planning filed by exploiting it to reduce uncertainty. Our approach extends contact motion planning to reacts to contact events. Our reactive planner augments the state space by taking in consideration continuous and discrete events. We differentiate discrete contact events that can occur during the execution due to motion uncertainty. This ...

An important aspect of partial-order planning is the resolution of threats between actions and causal links in a plan. We present a technique for automatically deciding which threats should be resolved during planning, and which should be delayed until planning is otherwise complete. In particular we show that many potential threats can be provably delayed until the end; that is, if the planner...