Hybrid Planning combines Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planning with concepts known from Partial-Order Causal-Link (POCL) planning. We introduce novel heuristics for Hybrid Planning that estimate the number of necessary modifications to turn a partial plan into a solution. These estimates are based on the task decomposition graph that contains all decompositions of the abstract tasks in the p...

The coordination of just-in-time production and transportation in a network of partially independent facilities to guarantee timely delivery to distributed customers is one of the most challenging aspect of supply chain management. From the theoretical perspective, the timely production/distribution can be viewed as a hybrid combination of planning, scheduling and routing problem, each notoriou...

Battery storage system is emerging as an essential component of hybrid power system based on renewable energy resources such as solar and wind in order to make these sources dispatchable. Accurate modeling of battery storage system is essential in order to ensure optimal planning of hybrid power systems incorporating battery storage. Majority of the system planning studies involving battery sto...

The coordination of just-in-time production and transportation in a network of partially independent facilities to guarantee timely delivery to distributed customers is one of the most challenging aspect of supply chain management. From a theoretical perspective, the timely production/distribution can be viewed as a hybrid combination of planning, scheduling and routing problem, each notoriousl...

The creation of a general architecture for the use of agents in production planning is addressed. The modularity and flexibility provided by an agent-oriented system proves itself useful in dynamic scenarios. The anthropomorphic features of the agents make them suitable for Electronic Commerce systems. Agents enable the interconnection of already existent web-based systems with the production l...

This paper discusses an attempt to solve the problem of planning several pharmaceutical plants at a global level. The interest in planning at this level is to increase the global control over the production process, to improve its overall efficiency and to reduce the need for interaction between production plants. In order to reduce the complexity of this problem and to make it tractable, some ...

Influenza viruses continue to be a major health threat in human and bird populations. The improvements in formulation and production level of the current influenza vaccines are not sufficient to afford complete protection. The continuous antigenic drifts and emergence of endemic and zoonotic strains make influenza vaccine planning difficult. Concern about the emergence of new influenza pandemic...