Innovate Change Begins in Resource Recycling/Waste Disposal Process with AI Introduction

AI Planning with Time and Resource Constraints

Planning deals with the problem of finding a partially ordered sequence of actions (plan) that transfers the world from some initial state to a desired state. Causal relations between actions play a critical role here. Introduction of explicit time and resources into planning is an important step towards modeling real-life problems. In this paper we propose a suboptimal domainindependent planni...

AI in Business-Process Reengineering

Fortune 500 company annual reports explicitly discussed reengineering efforts that were currently under way. One analyst recently estimated the annual market for BPR services in U.S.-based companies at $1.8 billion; another predicts a growth of 20 percent each year from 1994 to 1996 (Caldwell 1994). To measure the long-term impact of this work, one must consider a multiple of this figure as the...

Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’ although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’ the impacts have been often ignored or off lo...

Equity begins with children

measure of income poverty and the more directly observable – and more reliable – indicators of human well-being. The former frequently yields a distorted view of reality. After examining the role of social services in human development, Anand and Ravallion (1993) conclude ‘that certain components of public

Resource-Conscious AI Planning with Conjunctions and Disjunctions