With scaling up effective health interventions towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals high on the policy agendas of many developing nations, the costs and as well as benefits of these health interventions are extremely vital in resource poor settings such as Nigeria. Despite the body of evidence on the significance of economic analysis, the integration of economic ana...

Introduction The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) proposed the decentralisation of health planning so that the state health plan represents the needs and priorities of respective blocks and districts in the state. In Bihar, the State Programme Implementation Plan (SPIP) for the year 2010-2011 has been framed on the basis of strategies and activities, which worked in the last four years. Sta...

STEPHEN R. CONNORS an understanding of the cost and emissions impacts of those decisions. Director, The Electric Utility Program The Energy Laboratory MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 This paper will briefly review the regulatory motivations for incorporating environmental considerations into utility resource planning, explore the mismatch between the monetized add...

One of the major advances in classical planning has been the development of Graphplan. Graphplan builds a layered structure called the planning graph, and then searches this structure backwards for a plan. Modern SAT and CSP approaches also use the planning graph but replace the regression search by a constrained-directed search. The planning graph uncovers implicit constraints in the problem t...

Clinical effectiveness is defined as the extent to which specific clinical interventions, when used in the field for a particular patient or population, do what they are intended to do. The evidence base for achieving clinical effectiveness in family planning is improving mainly because fertility control is a high international public health priority. Evidence generated by methodologically so...

Abstract: In this paper we introduce the Periodic Petrol Station Replenishment Problem (PPSRP) over a T-day planning horizon and describe four heuristic methods for its solution. Even though all the proposed heuristics belong to the common partitioning-then-routing paradigm, they differ in assigning the stations to each day of the horizon. The resulting daily routing problems are then solved ex...

Achieving contraceptive security requires coordination among the many elements of family planning programs, including funding, procurement, supply chain, and services. Underlying factors that contribute to the success and sustainability of these program efforts are an enabling policy environment, political commitment, and effective policies. A supportive policy environment includes not only the...

The classical planning problem can be enriched with quantitative and qualitative user-defined preferences on how the system behaves on achieving the goal. In this paper, we propose the probabilistic preference planning problem for Markov decision processes, where the preferences are based on an enriched probabilistic LTL-style logic. We develop P4Solver, an SMT-based planner computing the prefe...

Strong Cyclic Planning aims at generating iterative plans that only allow loops so far as there is a chance to reach the goal. The problem is already significantly complex for fully observable domains; when considering partially observable domains, even providing a formal definition is far from straightforward. In this work, we provide a formal definition of Strong Cyclic Planning under Partial...