When multiple agents act concurrently towards achieving their goals in a shared environment, interactions between their actions may arise, affecting the outcome of their plans. We propose an approach to planning in such environments, termed interference robustness optimization planning that builds upon the HTN planning paradigm and extends it with explicit consideration and optimization of plan...

Planning is the model-based approach to autonomous behavior where a predictive model of actions and sensors is used to generate the behavior for achieving given goals. The main challenges in planning are computational as all models, whether featuring uncertainty and feedback or not, are intractable in the worst case when represented in compact form. Classical planning refers to the simplest for...

In the recent competitive business era of globalization it is truly tough to acquire the organizational effectiveness and efficiency without proper manpower planning and development practices. Manpower plays the dual role in operations, first, itself is an operative force and second, it makes the other forces operative and has a significant role in achieving the organizational effectiveness and...

Probabilistic conformant planning problems can be solved by probabilistic inference algorithms after translating their PPDDL specifications into graphical models. We present two translation schemes that convert probabilistic conformant planning problems as graphical models. The first encoding is based on the probabilistic extension of the serial encoding of PDDL in SatPlan, and the second encod...

This paper discusses a design methodology of cooperative path planning for dynamical multi-agent systems with spatial and temporal constraints. The cooperative behavior of the multi-agent systems is specified in terms of the objective function in an optimization formulation. The path of achieving cooperative tasks is then generated by the optimization formulation constructed based on a differen...

Achieving the full worth of IT investments is an important task of top management but questions remain as to what factors lead to improved returns and how do such investments impact organizational performance. Using a postal survey of 273 CIO respondents, this study analyzed the relationship of knowledge sharing and rational planning to IT-based organizational performance. Knowledge sharing was...