The “measuring with jugs problem” involves pouring water between jugs to measure out a specific quantity of water. The object is to find the proper sequence of fill operations, pour operations (from one jug to another) and emptying operations to arrive at the desired quantity of water which may be in either jug. In the past, solutions to this puzzle have always involved creating a series of ope...

Planning for numeric goals is an important problem. Only one of the many participants from the 2002 international planning competition (Metric-FF) can effectively handle problems containing numeric goal expressions. We report on planner S-MEP (Sequential More Expressive Planner) in this paper. S-MEP handles non-linear as well as linear expressions in preconditions, effects and goal. Metric-FF h...

Two people have a full B-gallon jug of wine and two empty jugs of capacity M and S, respectively, where B= M +S. Any jug may be poured into any other jug until either the first one is empty or the second is full. What is the quickest way for them to divide the wine equally? We solve this problem and show that a natural related problem may be solved in polynomial time.

Script COMPUTER: I am a bomb, you have just armed me. SIMON GRUBER (over a cellular phone): I got you see the message. It has a proximity circuit, so please don't try to run. JOHN MCCLANE: Yeah I got it. We're not gonna run. How do we turn this thing off? SIMON: On the fountain, there should be two jugs. You see them, a ve gallon jug and a three gallon jug? Fill one of the jugs with exactly fou...

COMPUTER: I am a bomb, you have just armed me. SIMON GRUBER (over a cellular phone): I got you see the message. It has a proximity circuit, so please don’t try to run. JOHN MCCLANE: Yeah I got it. We’re not gonna run. How do we turn this thing off? SIMON: On the fountain, there should be two jugs. You see them, a five gallon jug and a three gallon jug? Fill one of the jugs with exactly four gal...

In 4 experiments, instructions to plan a task (water jugs) that normally produces little planning altered how participants solved the problems and resulted in enhanced learning and memory. Experiment 1 identified planning strategies that allowed participants to plan full solutions to water jugs problems. Experiment 2 showed that experience with planning led to better solutions even after planni...

Roman jugs with handles terminating in human feet exemplify artefacts representing and footwear. Using a ‘bricolage’ of archaeological theory that includes object biography contextual archaeology, this paper explores the many facets significance attached to such through case study foot-handled jugs. By assembling corpus, patterns geographical chronological distribution can be examined. The sett...