application to the type of situations in which it was developed. The wide adoption of high-speed motors and group clinical procedures would alter some of the data presented. The methods developed for these and similar studies, the experience gained in conducting them, and the data collected should be useful as guides in developing the protocols for pilot-studies. To get the maxiinum from the pr...

Intentional use of contact gains ground in the motion planning filed by exploiting it to reduce uncertainty. Our approach extends contact motion planning to reacts to contact events. Our reactive planner augments the state space by taking in consideration continuous and discrete events. We differentiate discrete contact events that can occur during the execution due to motion uncertainty. This ...

An important aspect of partial-order planning is the resolution of threats between actions and causal links in a plan. We present a technique for automatically deciding which threats should be resolved during planning, and which should be delayed until planning is otherwise complete. In particular we show that many potential threats can be provably delayed until the end; that is, if the planner...

ning Systems Conference was the first of its kind. Its goal was to create planning domains that a wide variety of planning researchers could agree on to make comparison among planners more meaningful, measure overall progress in the field, and set up a framework for long-term creation of a repository of problems in a standard notation. A rules committee for the competition was created in 1997 a...

The ERP system has been the subject of much academic discussion in recent times. The impact that a successful implementation can have on an organization cannot be overstated. The factors which are crucial to the successful implementation of an ERP system are commonly known as Critical Success Factors (hereinafter CSFs). This study investigated the CSFs that play a crucial role during the implem...