The general public creates an outcry if any attempt is made to invade this green belt and that is something we want to get into planning – the creation of public interest. We want to get them to know something of our work and support us in our activities The implementation of green belts in many countries can be regarded as one of the most internationally famous attempts to control urban growth...

This paper describes a software infrastructure for developing and composing task and motion planners. The functionality of motion planners is well defined and they provide a basic primitive on top of which it is possible to develop planners for addressing higher level tasks. It is more challenging, however, to identify a common interface for task planners, given the variety of challenges that t...

Preparing citizens to address the complex problems inherent in cities requires our changing society to embrace a new kind of education. One way to train people to think about complex problems is to identify and study how professionals who think in those ways develop their epistemic frame. In this paper, we examine one of the ways urban planners master and appropriate relevant expertise through ...

We argue that discourse plans must capture the intended causal and decompositional relations between communicative actions. We present a planning algorithm, DPOCL, that builds plan structures that properly capture these relations, and show how these structures are used to solve the problems that plagued previous discourse planners, and allow a system to participate effectively and flexibly in a...

In this paper we demonstrate how agent-based simulation can be used for planning applications and especially for pathfinding problems which involve qualitative spatial constraints. Since we aim to assist human planners in the real-world, simulation agents have to deal with reliable GIS data, which ensure more realism for the simulation. We use our approach to support wildland fire suppression a...

This article addresses how nurse planners and nursing professional development practitioners can meet Educational Design Process 3 in the American Nurses Credentialing Center Primary Accreditation criteria that also corresponds with the Association for Nursing Professional Development Scope and Standards of Practice7. J Contin Educ Nurs. 2018;49(3):102-104.

This article addresses how nursing professional development practitioners and nurse planners can meet the educational design process criterion 2 in the American Nurses Credentialing Center Primary Accreditation process that also corresponds with the Association for Nursing Professional Development's Scope and Standards of Practice. J Contin Educ Nurs. 2018;49(2):52-54.

Although the explanation capability of expert systems is usually listed as one of the distinguishing characteristics of these systems, the explanation facilities of most existing systems are quite primitive. Computer generated explanations are typically produced from canned text or by diwct translation of the knowledge structures. Explanations produced in this manner bear little resemblance to ...