Classical planning is the problem of finding a sequence of actions for achieving a goal from an initial state assuming that actions have deterministic effects. The most effective approach for finding such plans is based on heuristic search guided by heuristics extracted automatically from the problem representation. In this thesis, we introduce alternative approaches for performing inference ov...

Planning of real world instances has to be performed through a lot of debates, negotiations and arguments between groups of planning agents. Conflicts of interest are inevitable and support for achieving consensus and compromise is required. The identification and selection among alternative courses of action have to be supported with rational, fair and effective decision-making models, especia...

The increased use of machine assistance has opened new doors for adversaries to thwart coalition planning processes and systems using the next generation of sophisticated cyber exploits. These new attack vectors, aimed directly at our core mission-essential systems, will not close during normal operations and will require Command and Control (C2) planners to operate in contested environments re...

Using the system dynamics methodology, we model the minimum viable product (MVP) approach to product development and examine the impact of release frequency, planning practices and committed reengineering capacity on software development outcomes. We leverage the organizational learning, Lean Startup, and Agile methodology literature to form the underpinnings of the model and measure outcomes u...

todays, the world development is facing serious water quality issues. since protect of water quality and ecosystem healthy is an important aspect of ecohydrology. the present research aimed to analyze the temporal trends of water quality parameters of mashin zard river station in order to planning long term management approaches. in this research, trend of some significant factors of water qual...

Although the purpose of strategic planning is straightforward to outline where an organization wants to go and how it’s going to get there its nature is complex and dynamic. Two techniques, the critical success factor (CSF) method and future scenario planning, can augment strategic planning efforts by illuminating an organization’s present situation and potential future. This paper explores the...

Federal and state policymakers have turned to health planning programs as a means to rationalize the delivery of health care services in the United States for over 3 decades. Early federal initiatives such as the Comprehensive Health Planning Act of 1966 and the Health Planning and Resource Development Act of 1974 were widely criticized for their inability to control costs effectively or to inc...

AI planning systems have traditionally operated as stand-alone blackboxes, taking a description of a domain and a set of goals, and automatically synthesizing a plan for achieving those goals. Such designs severely restrict the in uence that users can have on the resultant plans. This paper describes an Advisable Planner framework that marries an advice-taking interface to AI planning technolog...

creating and preserving large patches in land use configuration and satisfying compactness and contiguity in land use configuration are nature-prescribed and nature-inspired criteria that can be used in land use planning better that before. accompanying compactness and contiguity as the important landscape metrics in land use planning and land use configuration is close to applying proactive ap...

We have recently shown that classical planning problems can be characterized in terms of a width measure that is bounded and small for most planning benchmark domains when goals are restricted to single atoms. Two simple algorithms have been devised for exploiting this structure: Iterated Width (IW) for achieving atomic goals, that runs in time exponential in the problem width by performing a s...