What compels an organization to revisit its strategic intent? Management often will question an organization’s direction when faced with poor business results. In 1994, however, the Center for Quality Management reexamined its direction at a time when the organization was very successful and not in distress. This planning effort afforded CQM a unique opportunity: to reassess our strategic direc...

This article presents an extension to classical planning techniques that facilitates their use in dynamic multi-agent domains. The approach augments an integrated model of plan generation, execution and repair with two additional capabilities. The first is a general approach to multi-agent reasoning that allows an agent to reason about the plans of other agents and alter its planning behavior b...

Domain analysis is the inference of knowledge, termed domain knowledge, which is implicit in the description of planning problems. For many planning techniques, the use of domain knowledge yields substantial improvements of performance. This paper is concerned with domain analysis in three different ways. Firstly, we propose the domain knowledge exchange language DKEL as a mean to represent dom...

This paper argues that transportation planning methodologies must be built on the central thesis of the activity-based approach to travel demand modeling, namely, that travel is a derived demand that reflects people’s desire and need to participate in activities. The paper discusses why this foundation for transportation planning methodologies is necessary to address contemporary planning and p...

In the current economic climate, for many businesses it is generally no longer sufficient to pursue exclusively economic interests. Instead, integrating ecological and social goals into the corporate targets is becoming ever more important. However, the holistic integration of these new goals is missing from current factory planning approaches. This article describes the conceptual framework fo...

Marine spatial planning (MSP) is often considered as a pragmatic approach to implement an ecosystem based management in order to manage marine space in a sustainable way. This requires the involvement of multiple actors and stakeholders at various governmental and societal levels. Several factors affect how well the integrated management of marine waters will be achieved, such as different gove...

Infusing drugs directly into the brain is advantageous to oral or intravenous delivery for large molecules or drugs requiring high local concentrations with low off-target exposure. However, surgeons manually planning the cannula position for drug delivery in the brain face a challenging three-dimensional visualization task. This study presents an intuitive inverse-planning technique to identif...

We present an extension to classical planning techniques that facilitates their use in complex multi-agent domains. The approach implements a form of metaplanning that enables a planner to reason about properties of multiple plans in a single plan network. With this approach, a planning agent can simultaneously generate an individual plan, repair a second, and, together with a group, execute a ...

Learning shows great promise to extend the generality and effectiveness of planning techniques. Research in this area has generated an impressive battery of techniques and a growing body of empirical successes. Unfortunately the formal properties of these systems are not well understood. This is highlighted by a growing corpus of demonstrations where learning actually degrades planning performa...

Social values and concepts have played a central role in the history of mental health care. They have driven major reforms and guided the development of various treatment models. Although social values and concepts have been important for mental health care in the past, this Personal View addresses what their role might be in the future. We (DG, PH, and SP) did a survey of professional stakehol...