INTRODUCTION In Pakistan, Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) among married female youth is 17.4% and even lower in rural and slum areas leading to rapid population growth on one hand and poor health consequences on the other. The study was conducted to explore family planning service providers' perceptions regarding use of different contraceptive methods and to identify factors that are influe...

Purpose – Automated composition of semantic web services has become one of the recent critical issues in today’s web environment. Despite the importance of artificial intelligence (AI)-planning techniques for web service composition, previous works in that area do not address security issues, which is the focus of this paper. The purpose of this paper is to propose an approach to achieve securi...

Although distributed services provide a means for supporting scalable Internet applications, their ad-hoc provisioning and configuration pose a difficult tradeoff between service performance and availability. This is made harder as Internet service workloads tend to be heterogeneous, and vary over time in amount of concurrent clients and in mixture of client interactions. This chapter presents ...

To further study the effects of public service facilities on the land use intensity at regulatory planning level and enhance the scientific determination of land use intensity, this paper expounds the influence mechanism and factors of the public service facilities on land use intensity in regulatory planning, and conducts quantitative evaluation of the influence factors through theoretical ana...

O-Plan is an Artificial Intelligence Planning System written in Common Lisp that has been developed at the University of Edinburgh over the period 1983 to 1999. It is used in a wide variety of applications. It has been deployed as a planning service accessible over the World Wide Web since 1994 and has provided an HTTP interface to users and programs since 1997. It continues to be accessible as...

this paper presents a model for constrained multiobjective optimization of mixed-cropping planning. the decision challenges that are normally faced by farmers include what to plant, when to plant, where to plant and how much to plant in order to yield maximum output. consequently, the central objective of this work is to concurrently maximize net profit, maximize crop production and minimize pl...

The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate, how a dynamic aging chain model can support strategic decisions in personnel planning. More specifically, we use a system dynamics model to improve the recruitment and training process in a large German service provider in the wider field of logistics. The key findings are that the aging chain of service operators within the company is affected by a v...

In this paper we address the problem of realizing a service-providing reasoning infrastructure for proactive human assistance in intelligent environments. We propose SAM, an architecture which leverages temporal knowledge represented as relations in Allen’s interval algebra and constraint-based temporal planning techniques. SAM seamlessly combines two key capabilities for contextualized service...

The All China Women's Federation is an influential organization, which helps Chinese women to “hold up half the sky”. The Federation has a structured and well-linked system from top to bottom, the latter being the Village Women's Committee. The success and sustainability of China's development and population policies depend on Chinese women. The government accepts women's right to universal, co...