The draft Auckland Unitary Plan outlines the future land used for new housing and businesses with Auckland population growth over the next thirty years. According to Auckland Unitary Plan, over the next 30 years, the population of Auckland is projected to increase by one million, and up to 70% of total new dwellings occur within the existing urban area. Intensification will not only increase th...

One of the most complex and compelling issues confronting policymakers, parents, and the family court system is what type of parenting plan is most beneficial for children after their parents’ divorce. How much time should children live with each parent? An increasing number of children are living with each parent at least 35% of the time in shared residential parenting families: How are these ...

In this paper we explore challenges related to the engineering of plan libraries for plan recognition. This is an often overlooked problem, yet essential in the design of any real world plan recognizers. We mainly discuss challenges related to the evaluation of equivalence between plan libraries. We explain why this is a potential source of ill-conceived plan libraries. We consider an existing ...

In this paper we propose an efficient and incremental plan recognition method for cognitive assistance. We design our unique method based on graph matching and heuristic chaining rules in order to deal with interleaved and sequential activities. The finding of this research work is to be applied to predict abnormal behavior of the users, and optimize assistance for them. We have studied a use c...

Explanations are an important by-product of medical decision-support activities, as they have proved to favour compliance and correct treatment performance. To achieve this purpose, these texts should have a strong argumentation content and should adapt to emotional, as well as to rational attitudes of the Addressee. This paper describes how Rhetorical Sentence Planning can contribute to this a...

Scholars have identified that learning in an authentic environment with quality contextual and procedural supports can engage students in thorough observations and knowledge construction. Moreover, the target is that students are able to experience and make sense of all of the learning activities in the real-world environment with meaningful supports, such that their learning motivation can be ...

The problem of logistics in aid projects in the developing world can hardly be understated. One problem that arises is the occurance of regional imbalances in supply. Such imbalances can seriously compromise the effectiveness of a relief program. A system is required that can suggest a workable redistribution plan. Initial results for a prototype system based on a heuristic plan generator and e...

This paper addresses the question "What is creativity and how do we 'teach' it?". It proposes that the term 'creativity' has been so overused in non-arts contexts that it has been emptied of meaning for our domain. The paper draws on an extensive review of literature in the field to reframe and reclaim the discourses on creativity for artistic practice and learning. It explores approaches to pe...

The ability to recognize when an agent abandons a plan is an open problem in the plan recognition literature and is a significant problem if these methods are to be applied in real systems. This paper presents an explicit, formal, and implemented solution to the problem of recognizing when an agent has abandoned one of its goals based on a theory of probabilistic model revision.