Information visualization is a process of transforming large quantities of data and information, which are not inherently spatial, into forms that allow users to visually perceive the information instead of having to use their cognitive powers to figure them out otherwise. One such information visualization system, VIZ_planner, was developed for assisting manufacturing production planners to de...

The objective of this project is to build a multi-agent system to simulate the decision making process of stakeholders in a residential land development project and the influence of such decisions on land-use resources. The environment over which decisions are made is the Town of Strathmore, Alberta, where competition for land-use resources is increasing as a result of its proximity to the City...

health care is considered a universal human right greatly emphasized in social welfare development in most countries. in this regard, public health care with its pervasive effects on the general level of communities' health is a top priority drawing the attention of planners and decision-makers a like. unequal and inharmonious distribution of such services leads to unequal accessibility ca...

This paper presents a novel formulation for the problem of finding objects in a known environment while minimizing the search cost. Our approach consists in formalizing this class of problems as Stochastic Shortest Path (SSP) problems, a decision-theoretic framework for probabilistic environments. The obtained problems are solved by using offthe-shelf domain-independent probabilistic planners. ...

The mission of ORTEC, and specifically of HARMONY, is to provide planners and managers access to the benefits of mathematics, and operations research in particular. The basic philosophy of HARMONY is to integrate workforce management with administrative and (other) logistic processes of an organisation and to enrich decision-making within workforce management by OR/MS techniques. The integral a...

Many transportation providers such as package delivery companies and postal service organizations face the problem of designing a transportation network in order to service their customers. This network must balance the requirement of on-time delivery under tight time window constraints with the goal of low-cost operations of the fleet. Until recently this task was usually performed by planners...

Public transport journey planners support a common decision need, and have become popular especially with the availability of real-time tracking data for trip planning and the travellers’ ubiquitous access to the web. This paper, however, takes a usability perspective. The need for assistance in journey planning will vary depending on factors such as the familiarity of the traveller with the ro...