ularly as they relate to deciding how to act. As such, it comes as no surprise that preferences also play a significant role in AI automated planning, providing a means of specifying those properties of a plan that distinguish it as high quality. Given some task to be achieved, users may have preferences over what goals to achieve and under what circumstances. They may also have preferences ove...

In this paper, we present MAPWeb , a multiagent framework that integrates planning agents and Web information retrieval agents. The goal of this framework is to deal with problems that require planning with information to be gathered from the Web. Because of flexibility and efficiency reasons, MAPWeb decouples planning from information gathering, by splitting a planning problem into two parts: ...

Traditionally, planning involves a single agent for which a planner needs to find a sequence of actions that can transform some initial state into some state where a given goal statement is satisfied. But in general, “planning” can be viewed as being concerned with a general action selection problem. The planning framework has been extended from the classical deterministic plan generation probl...

Tires represent a critical spare part in mines. There is a shortage of medium and large tires. In addition, with increased mining activities and the creation of new mines, the demand for tires has increased significantly. Thus, it is particularly important for mining engineers to identify tire characteristics and correctly manage the spare part inventory. Spare parts management is critical from...

This paper proposes an optimal transmission expansion planning (TEP) which is based on determining share of each line in merchandizing surplus (MS) of system, determining by Independent System Operator (ISO). The more share of a line in MS of system denotes the priority of a line for expansion. The procedure of determining MS of each line in a power system is based on determining the MS share o...