The need to economize limited resources such as energy, fuel, money, and/or time, is ubiquitous in many of the classical applications of planning. Although planning with resources is a long-standing topic, the progress made in solving such problems has been limited. Relaxation heuristics solve a relaxed planning problem in which all “negative effects” of the operators, such as resource consumpt...

When planning a wireless local area network, there are design issues that need to be considered. In this paper, the fundamentals of planning a wireless local area network are introduced and discussed to highlight the requirements involved. Network constraints, as encountered in the physical environment, are discussed and their relevance to wireless network design is investigated. The paper conc...

Over the last decade, methods for multiagent planning under uncertainty have increased in scalability. However, many methods assume value factorization or are not able to provide quality guarantees. We propose a novel family of influence-optimistic upper bounds on the optimal value for problems with 100s of agents that do not exhibit value factorization.

Solving planning problems by local search provides a promising alternative to both classical (i.e., purely deductive) AI planning and the use of special purpose planning algorithms. The success of this approach has been manifested by the recent award-winning paper Kautz and Selman, 1996], which proves that a speciic local search method can substantially outperform the best existing planning pro...

The use of autonomous systems with local planning intelligence permits the optimization of task-processing in flexible production environments. Integration of local planning intelligence into the general task-planning process is necessary if the overall planning process is to be handled productively. For this purpose the coordinating instance distributes the tasks to the individual systems by m...

Energy planning is at the top priorities of local authorities nowadays. Problems such as the depletion of natural resources, the wellbeing of human population and the security of energy supply have became the main drivers to change the current fossil fuel-based energy paradigm. In order to put into practice energy planning processes at the local level, there is a need to provide support methods...

The TCPA’s Reuniting Health with Planning project has generated both detailed guidance for planners and public health specialists2 and an analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing the two professions at a time when the opportunity for closer working is greater, at least in unitary authorities, but budgets are under pressure.3 A recurrent theme in the TCPA’s work has been the challenge...

A path-planning method based on a combination of the static global and the dynamic local pathplanning methods is proposed for robot path planning under a complex environment. There are known static obstacles and unknown dynamic obstacles in any complex environment. The local-path planner dynamically generates a local path using obstacle-motion prediction and a rolling window for dynamic path pl...

SWOT analysis is used extensively as an assessment and planning method, particularly in tourism planning. However, there are little documentations on application of SWOT analysis in ecotourism. An assessment on systematic use of SWOT analysis was carried out in the present study to highlight the applicability of the SWOT technique in detailed investigations. In this study, based on field survey...