Web Service (WS) domains constitute an application field where automated planning can significantly contribute towards achieving customisable and adaptable compositions. Following the vision of using domain-independent planning and declarative complex goals to generate compositions based on atomic service descriptions, we apply a planning framework based on Constraint Satisfaction techniques to...

This conference provides a good opportunity to rethink operational planning. Currently, there are many efforts to tweak operational planning, whether by providing a greater emphasis on desired effects, on operational design that precedes planning, or through automation and battle management systems. These efforts are all likely to increase the efficiency of the current operational planning proc...

To assist forest managers in balancing an increasing diversity of resource objectives, we developed a toolkit modeling approach for sustainable forest management (SFM). The approach inserts a meta-modeling strategy into a collaborative modeling framework grounded in adaptive management philosophy that facilitates participation among stakeholders, decision makers, and local domain experts in the...

An optimization process is described that can be systematically applied by mine planners to produce life-of-mine schedules aligned with their strategic targets, while maximizing the net present value of the mining operation. The software tool employed uses heuristics and an evolutionary algorithm to generate life-of-mine schedules of production and development activities. Generating such schedu...

It is conjectured that MDP and POMDP planning will remain unfeasible for complex domains, so some form of ÒclassicalÓ decision-theoretic planning is sought. However, local plans cannot be properly compared in terms of their expected values, because those values will be affected by the other plans the agent has adopted. Plans must instead be merged into a single ÒmasterplanÓ, and new plans evalu...

This paper presents a component of the on-line tasklevel planning system of the mobile, two-arm robot KAMRO, which is being developed at our Institute. This component generates sequences of explicit robot motions for achieving the goals of elementary assembly operations, and supervises their execution by the real-time robot control system, according to implicitly specified pick-and-place operat...

In several African countries fertility levels have stagnated or increased slightly. However, many women still report an unmet need for family planning. Therefore achieving further fertility declines requires programs that increase demand for family planning, but that also address the existing unmet need. One way to improve contraceptive access in a cost-effective manner might be to integrate fa...

Activities to reduce soil erosion, soil fertility and increasing agricultural production and finally crop income have considered fundamental in the implementation of sustainable agriculture in Iran. This research investigates the effects of no-till (NL) technology to reduce soil erosion and increasing agricultural income and eventually for achieving sustainability. Data were collected through q...