Because general-purpose planning methods have difficulty with large-scale planning problems, researchers have resorted to hand writing domain-specific planners to solve them. An interesting alternative is to use example plans to demonstrate how to solve problems in a particular domain and to use that information to automatically learn domain-specific planners. In this paper, we present the Loop...

Resilience thinkers share an interest in collaborative deliberation with communicative planners, who aim to accommodate different forms of knowledge and styles of reasoning to promote social learning and yield creative and equitable agreements. Members of both fields attended a symposium at Virginia Tech in late 2008, where communicative planners considered how social–ecological resilience info...

Planners are powerful tools for problem solving because they provide a complete sequence of actions to achieve a goal from a particular initial state. Classical planning research has addressed this problem in a domain-specific manner—the same algorithm generates a complete plan for any domain specification. This generality comes at a cost; domain-independent planners have difficulty with larges...

Planners are powerful tools for problem solving because they provide a complete sequence of actions to achieve a goal from a particular initial state. Classical planning research has addressed this problem in a domain-independent manner— the same algorithm generates a complete plan for any domain specification. This generality comes at a cost; domainindependent planners have difficulty with lar...

In the last years, some very promising domain independent heuristic state-space planners for STRIPS worlds, like ASP/HSP, HSPr and GRT, have been presented. These planners achieve remarkable performance in some domains, like the blocks world, the logistics and the gripper, but they are not effective in other domains, like the grid and the mystery. In this paper we propose the use of state const...

this article’s objective is to present gender analysis to development planners, and introduce its’ application through an experience in iran. gender analysis is a methodology, which provides a comprehensive picture of the men and women’s role and their share in the society, as well as their similarities and differences in needs and priorities. the practical framework of gender analysis includes...