experiences from urban development plans and assessments of their concrete and tangible results in the past decades indicate lack of adequate success of our urbanization system to responding needs of our citizens. this has resulted in need to find a fundamental solution to transforming the centralized system into decentralized. recent changes in regard to a change of approach from master plan t...

(Riedl, Saretto, & Young 2003) describes narrative mediation, a plan-based technique for addressing human user actions that conflict with the story structure maintained by computer-controlled agents within interactive narrative environments. This technique is used to generate real-time system responses to unanticipated user actions while balancing user freedom with story coherence. Narrative me...

tem that provides decision support to human planners in a collaborative planning environment. The key contributions of our research on DSIPE are (1) constraint-based, consistent local views of the global plan that give each planner a view of how other planners’ subplans relate to their local planning decisions; (2) methods for automatically identifying and sharing potentially relevant informati...

The SHOP2 planning system received one of the awards for distinguished performance in the 2002 International Planning Competition. This paper describes the features of SHOP2 which enabled it to excel in the competition, especially those aspects of SHOP2 that deal with temporal and metric planning domains.

A generic planning system is introduced which allows for custom building of planners able to generate plans for diierent plan consumers in the context of intelligent assistance systems. All planners are adapted to the peculari-ties of diierent plan consumers, to their domain knowledge, their typical behavior, their preferences, and their utilization of plans. The necessary knowledge sources of ...