Postal and express shipment companies face the task to provide service between a numberof xed locations. The increasing competition and service orientation of this market sets new standards for planning. One must meet the required service level without letting costs get out of control. This paper identiies important planning tasks which have to be addressed at these companies and deenes corresp...

The process of describing existing services for American Indian and Alaska Native children with serious emotional disturbance by the Circles of Care strategic planning initiative is overviewed. We explain why service system description is important and how it helped define the role of evaluation within the initiative. Primary goals and methodologies of the service system description are describ...

Techniques of automated service composition can shorten development time by generating a concrete service composition out of a set of abstract composition requirements. However, no existing fully automated approach is able to deal with timed services and timed composition requirements. In this work, we propose an approach for the automated composition of timed services, represented as timed i/o...

This paper proposes an adaptation mechanism based on adaptation planning graph for servicebased business processes. First, a three-layer representation model of service-based business process is introduced. Second, control-flow patterns of tasks, goal, logic model of service-based business process and adaptation planning graph are introduced to enforce reliability of composite web services at r...

This paper discusses issues and requirements associated with the development of a spatial decision support system for the USDA Forest Service. A system was developed which integrates optimization based management planning models using map based representations of the spatial area being analyzed. This system was designed to address the decidedly hierarchical planning environment of the USDA Fore...

In this paper, we propose a novel integrated task planning system for service robots in domestic domains. Given open-ended high-level user instructions in natural language, robots need to generate a plan, i.e., a sequence of low-level executable actions, to complete the required tasks. To address this, we exploit the knowledge on semantic roles of common verbs defined in semantic dictionaries s...

This poster reports on the current state of the Planics toolset, which aims at solving the Web service composition problem by dividing it into several stages. These include an abstract planning, an o↵er collecting, and a concrete planning.

INTRODUCTION Usage of family planning services in developing countries have been found to avert unintended pregnancies, reduce maternal and child mortality, however, it's usage still remains low. Hence, the objective of this study was to investigate the factors that influence the decision of women in fertility age to go for family planning services. METHODS This was a descriptive cross-sectio...

One of the most important benefits of ServiceOriented Computing is to foster the satisfaction of end-user needs through the automatic generation of composite services out of simpler services existing in the user environment. Different approaches have been proposed in the last years to address this issue, e.g., based on model-checking or AI planning. Still, these approaches do not cope with the ...