The dynamic and partial reconfiguration of FPGAs enables the dynamic placement in reconfigurable zones of the tasks that describe an application. However, the dynamic management of the tasks impacts the communications since tasks are not present in the FPGA during all computation time. So, the task manager should ensure the allocation of each new task and their interconnection which is performe...

To date, no one planner has demonstrated clearly superior performance. Although researchers have hypothesized that this should be the case, no one has performed a large study to test its limits. In this research, we tested performance of a set of planners to determine which is best on what types of problems. The study included six planners and over 200 problems. We found that performance, as me...

Quantitative temporal constraints are an essential requirement for many planning domains. The HTN planning paradigm has proven to be better suited than other approaches to many applications. To date, however, efficiently integrating temporal reasoning with HTN planning has been little explored. This paper describes a means to exploit the structure of a HTN plan in performing temporal propagatio...

The current study aimed to examine the effects of strategic planning, online planning, strategic planning and online planning combined (joint planning), and no planning on the complexity, accuracy, and fluency of oral productions in two simple and complex narrative tasks. Eighty advanced EFL learners performed one simple narrative task and a complex narrative task with 20 minutes in between. Th...

Most practical work on AI planning systems during the last fifteen years has been based on hierarchical task network (HTN) d ecomposition, but until now, there has been very little analytical work on the properties of HTN planners. This paper describes how the complexity of HTN planning varies with various conditions on the task networks. networks are required to be totally ordered, and (3) whe...

The aim of the current study was to compare the influence of on-line planning and pre-task planning on the performance of EFL university students enjoying different levels of proficiency regarding accuracy, fluency and complexity. To this end a group of 134 EFL learners with different proficiency levels were asked to write narrative tasks under two planning conditions (Pre-task planning and on-...

Abstract This study was intended to compare collaborative and individual task planning effects on Iranian EFL learners’ writing performance. Therefore, a group of 90 upper intermediate EFL learners were placed in three groups of Collaborative Task planning, Individual Task planning, and Control. In the experimental groups, participants were asked to do task planning collaboratively and individu...

Abstract This study was intended to compare collaborative and individual task planning effects on Iranian EFL learners’ writing performance. Therefore, a group of 90 upper intermediate EFL learners were placed in three groups of Collaborative Task planning, Individual Task planning, and Control. In the experimental groups, participants were asked to do task planning collaboratively and individu...