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To finish or not to finish?

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Many real-world planning problems require generating plans that maximize the parallelism inherent in a problem. There are a number of partial-order planners that generate such plans; however, in most of these planners it is unclear under what conditions the resulting plans will be correct and whether the planner can even nd a plan if one exists. This paper identiies the underlying assumptions a...

Surface Finish

Q.1. What factors govern the selection of a particular cleaning process for metallic surfaces Ans. Selection of cleaning process is mainly influenced by (a) Type of contaminants (b) Degree of cleanliness required (c) Composition of metal (d) Condition of metal (e) Thickness of rust and scale (f) Allowable metal loss (g) Surface finish tolerances (h) Shape and size of workpieces (i) Production r...

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In this paper, we present a novel technique for modeling, checking, and enforcing temporal constraints in workkow processes containing conditionally executed activities. Existing workkow time model-ing proposals either do not discriminate between time constraints that apply to disparate execution paths, or they treat every execution path independently. Consequently, superruous time constraint v...

Crossing the Finish Line: A Review Article

Human capital production in the U.S. economy is no longer what it used to be. Graduation rates for high school and college have fallen (Card and Lemieux 2001; Heckman and Lafontaine 2007). As a result, the rate of growth of the stock of human capital has slowed considerably (Goldin and Katz 2008). At the same time, other countries are improving their educational attainment. Although the United ...