acres, and you enjoy a variety of activities on your land: watching wildlife, hiking, hunting, picking berries, picnicking or taking photos of wildlife and wildflowers. You delight in the beauty and solitude that comes with owning a woodland. You warm yourself in late fall and winter by cutting a little firewood, and you wouldn’t mind making a little extra cash, though managing your woodland fo...

In this paper we present an overview of the principle components of GIPO, an environment to support knowledge acquisition for AI Planning. GIPO assists in the knowledge formulation of planning domains, and in prototyping planning problems within these domains. GIPO features mixedinitiative components such as generic type composition, an operator induction facility, and various plan animation an...

Minimal-impact interpretation is widely used to reduce the ecological impacts of visitors to protected areas. We tested whether verbal appeals and/or role-model demonstrations of minimal-impact behavior by a trained guide reduced noise, litter, and trampling impacts on hiking trails in a subtropical rainforest. Interpretation did reduce impacts significantly. Different interpretive techniques w...

The rapid advancement of smartphone technology has given rise to highly-portable and computationallypowerful platforms. These platforms are capable of advanced image processing and computer vision techniques that can provide users with a greater understanding of their surroundings. The current method of identifying plants and animals in their natural habitat involves using field guide books tha...