This paper describes HICAP, a general purpose planning architecture that we have developed and applied to assist military commanders and their sta with planning NEOs (Noncombatant Evacuation Operations). HICAP integrates a hierarchical task editor, HTE, with a conversational casebased planner, NaCoDAE/HTN. In this application, HTE maintains an agenda of tactical planning tasks that, according t...

Since 1990, there has been a significant increase in the number of military operations that have required North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) nations to contribute forces as part of a multinational coalition or alliance. Moreover, the range of mission types has broadened to include peacekeeping, peacesupport, and humanitarian operations. This trend is expected to continue. There is eviden...

This research aimed to 1) study human resource management and operational efficiency during the pandemic crisis 2) compare according demographical factors, 3) relationship between of city hall personnel. The sample group was 256 employees in northeastern region Thailand. Research instrument questionnaire, statistics used for analysis were descriptive inferential using independent-samples t-test...

We give a simple explicit formula for turnover reduction when a large number of alphas are traded on the same execution platform and trades are crossed internally. We model turnover reduction via alpha correlations. Then, for a large number of alphas, turnover reduction is related to the largest eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvector of the alpha correlation matrix.

More police reduces crime but little is know about the mechanism. Does more police deter crime by reducing its attractiveness, or is the reduction driven by an incapacitation of recurrent criminals? This paper exploits micro-level data on single robberies together with redeployments of two police forces within a city, providing first evidence of (negative) incapacitation that is driven by reduc...

Issue: When benchmarking (as in engagement, work‐ stress, safety, or performance‐related applications), the use of normative scores can be a big mistake. Because if the norm group characteristics change in any way, the entire benchmarking process is rendered problematic. More importantly, if score magnitudes are considered related to performance, then it is the actual score which carries that r...