We address the problem of generalizing a plan to maximize the flexibility and robustness with which an agent can execute it. A key area of automated planning is the study of how to generate a plan for an agent to execute. The plan itself may take on many forms: a sequence of actions, a partial ordering over a set of actions, or a procedure-like description of what the agent should do. Many form...

< p>Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) is very important in evaluating the reliability of highly reliable products. According to ALT procedure, products undergo higher stress levels than normal conditions to reduce the failure times. ALTs have been studied for various conditions and stresses. In addition to common stress such as temperature and humidity, random usage can also be considered as anoth...

Establish a comprehensive plan robustness evaluation platform for intensity modulated proton therapy bilateral head and neck cancer based on the daily cone-beam computed tomography: dose accumulation study between PTV IMPT (PTV-IMPT) CTV robust optimized (ro-IMPT) planning strategies

one of the most important parameters in evaluating a watermarking algorithm is its capacity. generally, watermarking capacity is expressed by bits per pixel (bpp) unit measure. but this measure does not show what the side effects would be on image quality, watermark robustness and capacity. in this paper we propose a three dimensional measure named capacity surface which shows the effects of ca...

Uncertainty, robustness, and flexibility are three of the issues widely viewed as central to the field of complex engineered systems. A key challenge is to make the consideration of these issues more quantitative and theoretically sound. This paper presents a detailed technical analysis of one question inter-relating all three issues. How can we quantify the benefits of flexibility in the desig...

Agent technology is a promising solution for coping with the ever-growing complexity of modern information systems involving highly distributed and error-prone information sources. Unfortunately, current prototypes often lack the robustness necessary for real-world deployment. We propose transaction mechanisms as a possible remedy. For this, we divide Multiagent Systems into two layers: (1) a p...

Identifying risks in military logistics planning is essential. Particularly, identifying risks that emanate due to unforeseen unavailability of key transport assets during a defence mission is vital to evaluate the robustness of contingencies built in to support the mission's logistics plan. An unforeseen unavailability of a transport may be caused by unscheduled maintenance or its assignment t...

In an agent system, the ability to handle problems and recover from them is important in sustaining stability and providing robustness. We claim that execution logging is essential to support agent system robustness, and that agents should have architectural-level support for logging and recovery methods. We describe an infrastructure-level, default methodology for agent problem-handling, based...

Iterating between a router and a traffic micro-simulation is an increasibly accepted method for doing traffic assignment. This paper, after pointing out that the analytical theory of simulation-based assignment to-date is insufficient for some practical cases, presents results of simulation studies from a real world study. Specifically, we look into the issues of uniqueness, variability, and ro...