Discrete time Markov models are used in a wide variety of social sciences. However, these possess the memoryless property, which makes them less suitable for certain applications. Semi-Markov allow more flexible sojourn distributions, can accommodate duration stay effects. An overview differences and possible obstacles regarding use semi-Markov manpower planning was first given by Valliant Milk...

the goal of present study was to compare the performance of adhd and normal children on planning tests. 45 children with adhd aged between 7 to 12 were selected in mashhad city through convenience and randomized sampling. we used snap، cbcl، trf, csi-4 and clinical interview for diagnosis of adhd and put them into adhd-i, adhd-h, adhd-c subtypes. each subtype comprised 15 children with adhd. th...

A robot path planning technique is proposed in the paper. It was developed for robots with differential drive, but with minor modifications it could be used for all types of nonholonomic robots. The path was planned in the way to minimise the time of reaching the end point in desired direction and with desired velocity, starting from the initial state described by the start point, initial direc...

We are developing the Multi-Agent Self-Adaptive Cooperative Intelligent Real-Time Control Architecture (MASA-CIRCA) to address high-stakes, missioncritical, hazardous domains. (Musliner, Durfee, & Shin 1995; Musliner et al. 1999). MASA-CIRCA is a domain-independent architecture for intelligent, selfadaptive autonomous control systems that can be applied to hard real-time, mission-critical appli...

Recently, width-based planning methods have been shown to yield state-of-the-art results in the Atari 2600 video games. For this, the states were associated with the (RAM) memory states of the simulator. In this work, we consider the same planning problem but using the screen instead. By using the same visual inputs, the planning results can be compared with those of humans and learning methods...

An important strategic element in the planning process of public transportation is the development of a line concept, i.e. to find a set of paths for operating lines on them. So far, most of the models in the literature aim to minimize the costs or to maximize the number of direct travelers. In this paper we present a new approach minimizing the travel times over all customers including penalti...

This paper presents an application of Point-Interval logic (PIL) for the problem of planning timesensitive aspects of a mission. The logic incorporates both point and interval structures of time associated with mission activities and also provides for qualitative and quantitative descriptions of temporal requirements among mission activities. An algorithm is presented that extends the inference...

In dynamically changing environments a planning system does not have all the required information at the first place and the world state can change, rendering the original plan invalid. Consequently, taking planning to complex, real-world domains calls for close coupling of planning and plan execution, known as continual planning. In domains where a high degree of adaptability is crucial and li...

This paper describes a synergistic integration of a grasping simulator and a real-time visual tracking system, that work in concert to 1) find an object’s pose, 2) plan grasps and movement trajectories, and 3) visually monitor task execution. Starting with a CAD model of an object to be grasped, the system can find the object’s pose through vision which then synchronizes the state of the robot ...