I describe a planning methodology for domains with uncertainty in the form of external events that are not completely predictable. Under certain conditions, these events can be modelled as continuous-time Markov chains whose states are characterised by the planner’s domain predicates. Planning is goal-directed, but the subgoals are suggested by analysing the utility of the partial plan rather t...

Planning is the model-based approach to autonomous behavior where a predictive model of actions and sensors is used to generate the behavior for achieving given goals. The main challenges in planning are computational as all models, whether featuring uncertainty and feedback or not, are intractable in the worst case when represented in compact form. Classical planning refers to the simplest for...

Any form of model-based reasoning is limited by the adherence of the model to the actual reality. Scheduling is the problem of finding a suitable timing to execute a given set of activities accommodating complex temporal constraints. Planning is the problem of finding a strategy for an agent to achieve a desired goal given a formal model of the system and the environment it is immersed in. When...

Simulation games are an effective educational tool that offer life-like scenarios and develop valuable functional business knowledge and decision-making skills. These skills have been shown to be invaluable in the current job market. This paper describes a novel adaptation of the HEC Montreal Enterprise Resource Planning Simulation Game into an interinstitutional competition. Teams of universit...

Development assistance has a chequered past, in large part because planning for development assistance is historically such a fractured enterprise internally, and so disassociated from development assistance recipients’ assets and needs. The authors of environment-shaping offer an alternative development programme planning methodology that highlights above all else the ever-important relationsh...

The importance of ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems as a major system for organisational change and transformation has been one of the main reasons they have created such excitement within the educational arena. This paper examines the use of an ERP simulation game to prepare university graduates to meet the challenge of a global supply chain environment. It describes the novel approac...

The application of information technology in the field of biomedicine has become increasingly important over the last several years. The different possibilities for the workflow in the microarray analysis can be huge and it would be very interesting to create an automatic process for establishing the workflows. This paper presents an intelligent dynamic architecture based on intelligent organiz...

The computer simulation of complex phenomena is a challenging issue for studying their properties. Several models and techniques have been developed in order to provide useful conceptual and computational frameworks. The aim of this paper is to present a simulation model based on the Reaction-Diffusion Machine (RDM) and to discuss its implementation by a system based on multiagent and Object Or...