Opportunities arise in planning when changes in the environment make new propositions available to the planner. Replanning methods often focus only on the negative e ects that changes in the environment have and therefore do not apply well. This paper introduces a method that is speci cally focused on the opportunity problem. This method is based on the potential graph structure. This potential...

Enterprise Resource planning (ERP) Systems as standard software packages have been welcomed in most of industries. Although implementation of these systems needs considering issues to achieve the success and planned aspiration levels. In order to identifying and classifying these issues as ERP Critical Success Factors (CSFs), various researches have been done and the importances of these factor...

Short time-to-market and low costs of projects require effective and efficient management of projects. As progress in projects is not always as what is foreseen and because new projects need to be started up all of a sudden during the year due to fast changing results managing multiple projects simultaneously is essential. Management of projects in multiproject environments is difficult and oft...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is seamlessly integrated computer-based application used to manage internal and external resources, including tangible assets, financial resources, materials, and human resources covering all the functions and processes of an enterprise/institution. Education institutions and universities all over the world are facing challenges in designing robust Enterprise ...

A two-states quantum system with one control is proved to be flat. This provides a simple procedure to design smooth open-loop controls that steer in finite time from one eigen-state to the other one. A three-states quantum system with one control is not flat in general. Following the Rabi oscillations used by physicists to control stimulated transition, we associate to this system an averaged ...

Modern businesses face increased levels of competitive pressure, a turbulent business environment, and there is ongoing debate as to whether IT can continue to create competitive advantage in the modern era. The study described in this paper is work-in-progress towards a PhD. The primary aim of the research is to examine the relationship between Information Systems Strategic Planning (ISSP) and...

In this paper, we propose a text representation and a planning technique, on which can be based the generation of diierent versions of a same text. We focused our study on narration of events and states. This kind of text can be related in its minimal version, that we call kernel version, or by a hierarchy of versions containing more and more details, until the longest version that includes all...

Letters, and speech acts in general, provide little feedback about their success or failure, which makes it difficult for generators to improve their planning knowledge. Informal observation indicates that humans may learn better writing techniques through discovery rather than failure, however. I present a bottom-up, case-based planner that was developed to overcome some shortcomings of classi...

A lean approach to the planning of the construction process is a strategic challenge to analyse and manage organisational and technical factors that characterise decisions. Towards a non-schematic, non-repetitive, shared planning, construction managers need a flexible technique, tailored to the organisational process and able to represent an articulated semantic of the construction process. The...

Future mission plans for the space program call for complex autonomous systems that must be able to perform with high levels of reliability. Features of proposed missions include wide-scale distribution of agents, partial observability, and interaction between large numbers of active platforms. These domain features prove to be difficult for traditional planning algorithms. We are developing a ...