Probabilistic planners can have various planning objectives: usually they either maximize the probability of goal achievement or minimize the expected execution cost of the plan. Researchers have largely ignored the problem how to incorporate risk-sensitive attitudes into their planning mechanisms. We discuss a risk-sensitive planning approach that is based on utility theory. Our key result is ...

Women who earn more than their male spouses, in a heterosexual relationship, are growing underrepresented group. Some female breadwinners feel shame related to the reversal of traditional gender roles. These feelings can interfere with financial planning process. Five interventions provided as examples how planners, therapists, or counselors and other professionals help issues. Whether planner ...

Mechanism design is concerned with settings where a policy maker (or social planner) faces the problem of aggregating the announced preferences of multiple agents into a collective (or social), system-wide decision. One of the most important ways for aggregation preference used in a multi agent system is using election. In an election, the aim is to select the candidate who reects the common wi...

This paper explores how current planners behave when exposed to multiple metrics, examining which of the planners are metric sensitive and which are not. For the metric insensitive planners we propose a new method of simulating metric sensitivity for the purpose of generation of diverse plans close to a pareto frontier. It is shown that metric sensitive planners are good candidates for generati...

We describe a large scale study of planners and their performance: 28 planners on 4726 benchmark problems. In the first part of the paper, we apply off-the-shelf machine learning techniques to learn models of the planners’ performance from the data. In the evaluation of these models, we address the critical question of whether accurate models can be learned from easily extractable problem featu...

traditional social science often fails when deployed to explain complex human action. in each specific social field of human endeavour, including planning, experienced actors draw on a range of conscious and unconscious performative knowledges to act with effect: the experts simply ‘know’ what to do. some thinkers, suggests that to understand these complex human dispositions framing practice re...

Previous academic research found that two broad approaches characterize non-profit foundations when setting objectives. In the first approach, business-like model, nonprofit are inspired by for-profit organizations, and they adopt methodologies, tools, practices typical of business management to better respond social issues connected their local dimensions. The second charity-like conversely ar...