A simple sample-based planning method is presented which approximates connected regions of free space with volumes in Configuration space instead of points. The algorithm produces very sparse trees compared to point-based planning approaches, yet it maintains probabilistic completeness guarantees. The planner is shown to improve performance on a variety of planning problems, by focusing samplin...

BACKGROUND: Over the past decade National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) in Africa have invested considerable financial and human resources in research planning exercises. African NARS have implemented research planning by translating general national development objectives into concrete priorities and action plans for agricultural research. These formal research planning exercises have a...

Automated planning and scheduling, including automated path planning, has been integrated with an Internet-based distributed operations system for planetary rover operations. The resulting prototype system enables faster generation of valid rover command sequences by a distributed planetary rover operations team. The Web Interface for Telescience (WITS) provides Internet-based distributed colla...

This paper introduces multi-strategy planning and describes its implementation in the DoLittle system, which can combine many di erent planning strategies, including means-ends analysis, macro-based planning, abstraction-based planning (reduced and relaxed), and casebased planning on a single problem. Planning strategies are de ned as methods to reduce the search space by exploiting some assump...

One of the first CBR systems was CHEF, a case-based planner that reuses cooking recipes for creating new ones. Since then, a wide variety of applications of case-based planning (CBP) have been proposed including manufacturing, military planning and emergency prediction. In this talk, the speaker will discuss the evolution of the role of the cases in CBP. In early CBP systems like CHEF, cases pr...

This paper presents three approaches to generate learning designs using existing domain-independent planners. All of the approaches compile a course defined in a standard e-learning language into a planning domain, and a file containing student’s learning information into a planning problem. The learning designs are automatically generated from the plans that solve the problems. The approaches ...

Abstract Cognitive abilities allow robots to learn and reason from their environment. The gained knowledge can then be incorporated into the robot’s actions which in turn affect Therefore, a cognitive robot is no longer static system that performs based on pre-defined set of rules but complex entity dynamically adjusts over time. With this, challenges arise for production systems need observe i...

background over the past few decades diabetes has emerged as an important non-communicable disease in subsaharan africa (ssa). sight loss from diabetic retinopathy (dr) can be prevented with screening and early treatment. the objective of this paper is to outline the required actions and considerations in the planning and development of dr screening services.   methods a multiple-case study app...

Mobile technologies and more precisely apps have disrupted technology scenario. Bring your own application (BYOA) is a new trend that has emerged after the “bring your own device” (BYOD) vogue. However, and in spite of its intrinsic benefits, the trend presents also several caveats and Enterprise app stores are seen as a way to tackle these risks. In this paper, authors present ModEAS, a system...