The ultimate objective in planning is to construct plans for execution. However, when a plan is executed in a real environment it can encounter differences between the expected and actual context of execution. These differences can manifest as divergences between the expected and observed states of the world, or as a change in the goals to be achieved by the plan. In both cases, the old plan mu...

Planning as heuristic search is a powerful approach to solving domain independent planning problems. In recent years, various successful heuristics and planners like FF, LPG, FAST DOWNWARD or SGPLAN have been proposed in this context. However, as heuristics only estimate the distance to goal states, a general problem of heuristic search is the existence of plateaus in the search space topology ...

With this has come the development of a cohort of patients, presenting with non-specific symptoms associated with overexposure to LPG. This is commonly referred to as ‘Gas Geyser Syndrome’, but this has also beenused to describe cases of carbon monoxide (CO) exposure [2]. What further confounds the diagnosis, is the fact that the spectrum of symptoms closely mimics that of the exposure to other...

An optical fibre transducer able to work in high temperatures environments is experimentally demonstrated in the laboratory. It is based on a permanent Long period gratings (PLPG) written using a thermo-mechanical technique. The fabrication technique, the experimental works, their results and the conclusions are presented and discussed in this paper.

In this paper, an approach of principal component analysis (PCA) with local pixel grouping (LPG) is used to de-noising the noisy historical document image. This technique ensures the preservation of historic document image local structure. This is due to block matching based LPG which carries out classification to allow only the sample blocks with similar contents used in the calculation for PC...

Intraurban land-use change and factors affecting it are critical subjects in land-use planning. If unplanned, such changes can reduce the quality of life and spatial justice and ultimately lead to urban unsustainability. This paper aims to identify factors influencing unsustainable land-use change and analyze the intensity of such changes based on those factors. The artificial neural network an...

Study cadastral reform procedures as applied in developed countries, take into consideration automation of the cadastre and the role of the cadastre as part of a larger land information system, evaluate trends in this field and produce a vision of where cadastral systems will be in the next 20 years, show the means by which these changes will be achieved and describe the technology to be used i...