A new motion planning framework is presented that enables multiple mobile robots with limited ranges of sensing and communication to maneuver and achieve goals safely in dynamic environments. The framework is applicable to both planetary rover and free-floating space robot applications. To combine the respective advantages of centralized and decentralized planning, this framework is based on th...

The impact of climate change, water scarcity, land use change, population growth and also population shrinking can only be predicted with uncertainties. Especially for assets with a long planning horizon this is a critical part for planning and design. One solution is to make centralized organized water infrastructure with a long-planning horizon resilient and adaptive. For existing centralized...

This paper describes and evaluates three methods for coordinating multiple agents. These agents interact in two ways. First, they are able to work together to achieve a common pool of goals which would require greater time to achieve by any one of the agents operating independently. Second, the agents share resources that are required by the actions needed to accomplish the goals. The first coo...

In large organizations with a c entralized decision-making environment like supermarket chains, selling or producing products usually i nvolves participation of all individual units. Motivated by a production-planning problem regularly faced by the cen tral decision-making unit of such an organization, this paper attem pts to arrange new input-output plans for all units in the next tim e period...

in dea to obtain an efficient representation in ccr andbcc models for each dmu only one linear plan would be solved; however,it is possible in centralized resource allocation (cra) to solve allthe dmus by one linear planning. in this paper, models of centralizedresource allocation in input-oriented and in dynamic case will be offeredand by using dynamic sbm, the representation of dmus in each t...

(Appears as a regular paper in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Washington D.C, IEEE Computer Society, Nov. 2002, pp. 138-145. 27 out of 84 submissions were accepted as regular papers leading to 32 acceptance rate.) Significant advances in plan synthesis under classical assumptions have occurred in last seven years. All such efficie...