The planning process is central to goal-directed behaviour in any task that requires the organization of a series of actions aimed at achieving a goal. Although the planning process has been investigated thoroughly, relatively little is known about how this process emerges and evolves during childhood. In this paper we describe three reinforcement learning models of planning, in the Tower of Lo...

In this paper, we report on the visualization capabilities of an Explainable AI Planning (XAIP) agent that can support human in the loop decision making. Imposing transparency and explainability requirements on such agents is especially important in order to establish trust and common ground with the end-to-end automated planning system. Visualizing the agent’s internal decision making processe...

This paper presents, formalises and classifies working time accounts (WTAs), a means of achieving flexible production capacity through the flexible organisation of working time. We propose linear programming models to plan working time, using WTA, at companies in the service industry. A computational experiment shows that the models can be solved for any planning problems of reasonable size.

achieving optimal production cycle time for improving manufacturing processes is one of the common problems in production planning. during recent years, different approaches have been developed for solving this problem, but most of them assume that mean quality characteristic is constant over production run length and sets it on customer’s target value. however, the process mean may drift from ...

Realistic and complex planning situations require a mixed-initiative planning framework in which human and automated planners interact to mutually construct a desired plan. Ideally, this joint cooperation has the potential of achieving better plans than either the human or the machine can create alone. Human planners often take a case-based approach to planning, relying on their past experience...

background: in a variety of industries, accreditation is recognized as a symbol of quality indicating that the organization meets certain performance standards. in this regard, health records are among the primary documents used by health care facilities to evaluate compliance with the standards set by the accreditation agencies. this study compares the strengths and weaknesses of information m...