A generic air quality management plan for Municipalities

Urban Air Quality Management

Flight plan management in a distributed air traffic control system

We explore how large-scale replication may enhance the availability of data in a loosely coupled distributed system. We are especially concerned with Air Traac Control systems which are intrinsically geographically distributed and impose strict constraints of availability. In this framework, we propose a replication system providing a weak consistency of data. After a study of speciic propertie...

Effect of the Apulia air quality plan on PM10 and benzo(a)pyrene exceedances

During the last years, several exceedances of PM10 and benzo(a)pyrene limit values exceedances were recorded in Taranto, a city in southern Italy included in so-called areas at high risk of environmental crisis because of the presence of a heavy industrial district including the largest steel factory in Europe. A study of these critical pollution events showed a close...

Using Generic Preferences to Incrementally Improve Plan Quality

We describe a methodology for representing and optimizing user preferences on plans. Our approach differs from previous work on plan optimization in that we employ a generalization of commonly occurring plan quality metrics, providing an expressive preference language. We introduce a domain independent algorithm for incrementally improving the quality of feasible plans with respect to preferenc...

A History of Air Quality Management

A brief history of air pollution management in Canada is provided in this chapter. Whether the issue be acid rain, ground level ozone, particulate matter, air toxics, or emergency releases of air pollutants, Canada has traditionally built a management approach on: strong science; a desire to move in a similar direction to our southern friends, the U.S.A.; connections to the rest of the world; a...