The natural environment affects the construction of desert highways. Conversely, highway construction affects the natural environment and puts the ecological environment at a disadvantage. To satisfy the variety and hierarchy of desert highway construction and discover the spatio-temporal distribution of the natural environment and its effect on highway construction engineering, an assessment o...

This paper describes two multi-agent systems developed at Southwest Research Institute to address issues in automated planning. The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Planning system uses multiple cooperative agents to generate a path for the AUV. The Medical Test Planning System (MTPS) consists multiple agents that incrementally build a schedule for a series of medical tests constrained by th...

People reason hierarchically when they navigate highway networks. The hierarchical structure is induced by a sequence of tasks starting with route planning, continuing with wayfinding instructions, and leading to the actual driving process. In order to perform adequately, people need to map highway features and navigation actions from one task level to the next. What exactly are these features,...