My research explores the question: how can theorists better understand the ways in which planning technologies are used by municipal planners? In the case-study municipality, a recently introduced web-GIS technology had little demonstrable success in attaining two of its stated goals: enabling increased public access to municipal geographic information and encouraging planners to produce their ...

The common wisdom that goal orderings can be used to improve planning performance is nearly as old as planning itself. During the last decades of research several approaches emerged that computed goal orderings for diierent planning paradigms, mostly in the area of state-space planning. For partial-order, plan-space planners goal orderings have not been investigated in much detail. Mechanisms d...

A pragmatic approach to strategic planning is presented for use by public and non-profit organizations. Benefits of the process are outlined and two examples of its application are presented-one involving a city government and the other a public health nursing service. Requirements for strategic planning success are discussed. Several conclusions are drawn, namely that: (7) strategic planning i...

In this paper, we describe, how agents can support collaborative planning within international coalitions, formed in an ad-hoc fashion as a response to military and humanitarian crises. As these coalitions are formed rapidly and without much lead time or co-training, human planners may be required to observe a plethora of policies that direct their planning effort. In a series of experiments, w...

It is known that a planning domain model influences performance of planners, but so far there have been only limited studies how exactly models influence planners’ performance. There are also no guidelines how to design efficient planning models. This paper studies several modeling techniques, namely factored and structured representations of states, heuristics, and control knowledge and their ...

Metrics for Sampling-Based Motion Planning. (December 2007) Marco Antonio Morales Aguirre, B.S., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; M.S., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Nancy M. Amato A motion planner finds a sequence of potential motions for a robot to transit from an initial to a goal state. To deal with the intractability of this problem, a cla...

(Appears as a regular paper in the proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), IEEE Computer Society, Washington D.C. Nov. 2002, pp. 75-82.) Recent advances in constraint satisfaction and heuristic search have made it possible to solve classical planning problems significantly faster. There is an increasing amount of work on extending these advanc...