in this paper, first, a new criterion, titled “surplus percent of the customers” is defined for static transmission expansion planning in restructured power systems. then by a simple example, the new criterion is compared with some already presented market-based criteria and it is shown that the new criterion can realistically evaluate the transmission network expansion from the market view. in...

while learners’ ability to speak academic language develops over time in content-based programs, the development of their nonacademic language appears to lag behind. students’ speaking in content-based (cb) classrooms is confined to an academic discourse style. in the researchers’ point of view, the gap of less amount of nonacademic speaking can be bridged by the application of the conceptual f...

In domains such as mobile robot navigation, the dominant characteristics which must be addressed by an intelligent agent are the incomplete and uncertain knowledge of its environment, uncertainty in the current state of a complex system, as well as uncertainty in the effects of the agent’s own actions. In order to function effectively in unstructured, unknown, and dynamic environments, planning...

Automated Planning (AP) studies the generation of action sequences for problem solving. A problem in AP is defined by a state-transition function describing the dynamics of the world, the initial state of the world and the goals to be achieved. According to this definition, AP problems seem to be easily tackled by searching for a path in a graph, which is a well-studied problem. However, the gr...

1 Agent based system is a collection of autonomous computational elements, independent programs (hereafter we will refer to these elements as agents) that perform collective behaviour in order to meet either their individual goals (selfinterested agents) or a in-community shared goal (collaborative agents) [7], [5]. They exchange information and knowledge in order to achieve desired instance of...

In this paper we introduce an improvement in the path planning algorithm for the humanoid soccer playing robot which uses Ferguson splines and PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization). The objective of the algorithm is to find a path through other playing robots to the ball, which should be as short as possible and also safe enough. Ferguson splines create preliminary paths using random generated para...

With complex systems such as spacecraft, we often need to achieve goals even though failures prevent the exact state of the system from being determined. Conformant planning is the problem of generating a plan that moves a system from any of a number of possible initial states to a goal state, given that actions may have uncertain outcomes and sensing is unavailable. Two existing approaches to ...

This thesis proposes a synthesis of logic and probability for solving stochastic sequential decision-making problems. We address two main questions: How can we take advantage of logical structure to speed up planning in a principled way? And, how can probability inform the production of a more robust, yet still compact, policy? We can take as inspiration a mobile robot acting in the world: it i...

Introduction The IBBS is part of the Indonesian MoH HIV Surveillance System, which include Serological Surveillance, Behavioral Surveillance, Reproductive Tract Infection Survey, and monthly HIV/AIDS facilitybased (hospitals, HCs, VCT Sites) monthly reports. The IBBS 2011 was conducted in 11 provinces (22 districts/municipalities) encompassing eight Most At Risk Populations (MARPs) – injection ...

Future manufacturing systems are required to be adaptable and to quickly react on changes in markets and demands. There is a shift towards mass customization. Therefore, future manufacturing systems must be able to support individualized products that are tailored to customer needs. The switch between different products should involve little manual intervention. In this paper, the issues that n...