The defense personnel engaged in logistics planning need tools that allow them to evaluate a plan and efficiently update this information as the situation evolves. This paper reports on the work that IET performed as part of DARPA’s Ultra*Log project to design a probabilistic reasoning algorithm for dynamic plan evaluation that conforms to the stringent performance requirements of Ultra*Log’s m...

Finding high quality plans for large planning problems is hard. Although some current anytime planners are often able to improve plans quickly, they tend to reach a limit at which the plans produced are still very far from the best possible, but these planners fail to find any further improvement, even when given several hours of runtime. We present an approach to continuing plan quality optimi...

In this article we report on the manner in which participatory action research (PAR) was utilised by teachers in developing a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) school plan, in collaboration with university researchers. The need for a structured HIV and Aids school plan emerged during the course of a broader research project (of which this study for...

This article discusses modern trends in the development of mathematics teaching methods. The activation educational and research activities schoolchildren is impossible without formation a positive attitude towards this type activity. Project work can be collective on implementation solution any issue. advantage technique communication skills, increasing independence. While working project, stu...

Generalization is a fundamental aspect of behavior, allowing for the transfer of knowledge from one context to another. The details of this transfer are thought to reveal how the brain represents what it learns. Generalization has been a central focus in studies of sensorimotor adaptation, and its pattern has been well characterized: Learning of new dynamic and kinematic transformations in one ...

These preliminary notes contain far more material that was covered in the first lecture. A redacted copy of the notes will be posted next week. We leave these longer notes up now to help students understand better the nature of the course. The actual lecture only covered material up to OCaml syntax.

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It is often difficult for humans to understand what course of action is proposed in a plan or workflow. This is particularly the case for long plans, or plans with multiple actors. Our contributions are a) the ability to present plans as both text and graphics and b) a method of filtering and highlighting, in both modalities, which focuses the information presentation to the portion of the plan...