In traditional approach, planning and scheduling are two separate and successive operations. The process planning phase is mostly about the physical aspect of planning, where a product range, production quantities, machines, tools, material and accessories are selected. The emphasis in the second, scheduling phase, is on the time aspect. The plan is the basis to determine the sequence of operat...

In order to make planning technology more accessible and usable the planning community may have to adopt standard notations for embodying symbolic models of planning domains. In this paper it is argued that before we design such languages for planning we must be able to evaluate their quality. In other words, we must clear for what purpose the languages are to be used, and by what criteria the ...

Although AI planning techniques can potentially be useful in several manufacturing domains, this potential remains largely unrealized. Many of the issues important to manufacturing engineers have not seemed interesting to AI researchers--but in order to adapt AI planning techniques to manufacturing, it is important to address these issues in a realistic and robust manner. Furthermore, by invest...

Predicting the future is a basic problem that people have to solve every day and a component of planning, decision making, memory, and causal reasoning. In this article, we present 5 experiments testing a Bayesian model of predicting the duration or extent of phenomena from their current state. This Bayesian model indicates how people should combine prior knowledge with observed data. Comparing...

Prediction of annual average precipitation over a regin is one of important issues in watersherd management and natural resources planning. Geostatistics is one of the useful methods for precipitation prediction which varies based on type of the variable. This study was conducted in Karoon and Dez Basins located in southwertern of Iran. The data set including 20 years of annual precipitation of...

prediction of annual average precipitation over a regin is one of important issues in watersherd management and natural resources planning. geostatistics is one of the useful methods for precipitation prediction which varies based on type of the variable. this study was conducted in karoon and dez basins located in southwertern of iran. the data set including 20 years of annual precipitation of...

Background. International successes, especially in the Olympic Games, have become significantly important to many countries. Hence, the prediction can be better planning to gain this goal. Objectives. This study was conducted to predict the success of the participating countries in the Tokyo Olympic Games and this it was done using smart methods. Methods. This study was conducted in two stage...

spatial planning system of a country is the array of its planning systems. getting familiar with spatial planning system of different countries and their experiences could help for comparison and accommodation so that making decision and defining appropriate planning system could be done. this article has studied the spatial planning system of portugal and since there are different factors affe...

the aim of radiation therapy treatment planning is to achieve an optimal balance between delivering a high dose to target volume and a low dose to healthy tissues. in order to refrain any complications resulting from the dose to the surrounding normal organs, the role of treatment plan has been critically evaluated in term of how large the volume or mass of normal tissues exposed in the radiati...

Different solvers for computationally difficult problems such as satisfiability (SAT) perform best on different instances. Algorithm portfolios exploit this phenomenon by predicting solvers’ performance on specific problem instances, then shifting computational resources to the solvers that appear best suited. This paper develops a new approach to the problem of making such performance predicti...