Social reformers such as John Stuart Mill and John Dewey have long expressed concern about a tension between democratic principles and organizational practices that appear undemocratic.' More recently, a substantial body of academic literature advocating changes in organizations to make them more democratic has been produced.2 Change has been advocated on a variety of normative grounds. In a no...

Planning is a very important AI problem and it is also a very time consuming AI problem To get an idea of how complex dif ferent planning problems are it is useful to describe the computational complexity of di erent general planning problems This complexity has been described for problems in which planning is based on the complete or partial information about the current state of the system In...

This paper introduces Open Planning Process Panels (O-P3). These panels are based on explicit models of the planning process and are used to coordinate the development and evaluation of multiple courses of action. We describe the generic ideas behind O-P3 technology, a general methodology for building O-P3 interfaces and two applications based on O-P3 technology: the Air Campaign Planning Proce...

This study explored barriers to and facilitators of using family planning services among HIV-positive men in Nyanza Province, Kenya. From May to June 2010, in-depth interviews were conducted with 30 men receiving care at 15 HIV clinics. The key barriers to the use of family planning included concerns about side effects of contraceptives, lack of knowledge about contraceptive methods, myths and ...

Operational planning is considered an important tool for translating government policies and strategic objectives into day-to-day management activities. However, developing countries suffer from persistent misalignment between policy, planning and budgeting. The Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) was introduced to address this misalignment. Kenya adopted the MTEF in the early 2000s, and i...

We were engaged in research in various areas of robotic movement planning. The movement planning problems investigated were static movement problems (where the obstacles do not move), minimum distance path planning, compliant motion control (which involves planning without complete knowledge of the position of the robot) and related frictional movement problems, motion planning with independent...

The article by Potts et al, “The Pill is Mightier than the Sword,” points out that family planning has an important role to play in building peace by increasing women’s empowerment and their agency, ultimately helping peacebuilding efforts. Evidence has demonstrated that family planning programs are cost effective, produce quick results, help women and couples meet their desired fertility level...

The SCO planning problem is a tightly coupled planning and scheduling problem. We have identified some important features underlying this problem including the coordination between actions, maintaining temporal and numerical constraints and the optimization metric. These features have been modeled separately and experimented with the state-of-the-art planners, Crikey, Lpg-td and SgPlan5. Howeve...

This paper introduces Open Planning Process Panels (O-p3). These panels are based on explicit models of the planning process and axe used to coordinate the development and evaluation of multiple courses of action. We describe the generic ideas behind O-P3 technology, a general methodology for building O-P3 interfaces and two applications based on O-P3 technology the Air Campaign Planning Proces...

This paper introduces Open Planning Process Pan els O P These panels are based on explicit mod els of the planning process and are used to coor dinate the development and evaluation of multiple courses of action We describe the generic ideas behind O P technology a general methodology for build ing O P interfaces and two applications based on O P technology the Air Campaign Planning Pro cess Pa...