Work-in-progress on the design of a conditional nonlinear planner is described. CNLP is a nonlinear planner that develops plans that account for foreseen uncertainties. CNLP represents an extension of the conditional planning technique of Warren [75] to the domain of nonlinear planning.

In the real world, one of the major factor that contributes to the complexity of supply chains is the structure of supply chain. Compared with a supply chain with two members, operations planning in a manufacturing network where members are independent entities require a special attention to the details. This paper will focus on the specific case of manufacturing network planning. Our objective...

Implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system project is a difficult and high cost proposition as it places tremendous demands on organization’s time and resources. The ERP implementation literature contains many case studies of organizations that have implemented ERP systems successfully. However, many organizations do not achieve success in their ERP implementation projects. Much ...

A project team, set up to design and implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, is essentially tasked with integrating knowledge distributed across an organization. This suggests that the social capital of members will be important. In the case study project, however, team members used their social capital to further their own personal goals rather than the ERP project goals. Moreo...

Technical educational institutions (TEIs) can use enterprise resource planning for an integrated, better and efficient system for management of all the information related to many users in these Institutions. Though ERP is used in many TEIs in India, but it has not been found to be completely successful. This paper aims at assessing the efficiency of implementing an ERP system from users’ persp...

The ability to create su ciently detailed natural phenomena is important for building virtual environments, unfortunately this is a laborious task. Although various procedural techniques are available, new techniques that can ease the burden on digital artists are highly sought after. The use of path planning techniques that originate from arti cial intelligence is a viable avenue for the gener...

Introduction Common practices in current urban logistics planning in Scandinavia and the UK, and the degree to which SUTP (Sustainable Urban Transport Plan), SUMP (Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans) and SULP (Sustainable Urban Logistics Plans) guidelines are used, are examined in this paper. Methods A systematic literature review identifies relevant studies based on predefined inclusion criteria...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, if implemented correctly, have shown that a firm can gain strategic and tactical advantages over their competition who do not implement such systems. However, with failure rates estimated to be as high as 50% of all ERP implementations, companies can be negatively impacted by a poorly performing ERP system. The research on ERP has focused on events le...

This paper presents a prototype system called SFplanner which uses an automated planning technique to generate workflows for reconfiguring a computing infrastructure. The system allows an administrator to specify a configuration task which consists of current state, desired state and global constraints. This task is compiled to a grounded finite-domain representation as the input for the standa...

This study draws on the findings of two cross-sectional surveys of the top 5,000 largest corporations in Taiwan, undertaken in 2003 and 2006. It presents the organisations’ criteria for selecting enterprise resource planning (ERP) software package and its supplier. The different selection criteria for ERP software package and its supplier between the two investigative years are discussed. From ...