Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are a novel component in the aviation system, offering advancements which may open new and improved civil/military applications as well as improvements to the safety and efficiency of all civil aviation. Progressive improvements of today’s UAS in several areas, e.g. reliability, interoperability, networked capabilities, mission planning, safety monitoring and use...

In the last decades, the integration of informatics applications supporting planning, scheduling and control has been a serious concern of the industrial community. Many standards have been developed to tackle this issue by addressing the exchange of data between the scheduling function and its immediate lower and upper levels in the planning pyramid. However, a more comprehensive approach is r...

New urban development areas are expected to meet highest ecological standards. Beside the construction phase, it is the daily life in neighbourhoods that impacts their carbon footprint. Energy monitoring is a powerful tool for energy analytics, benchmarking, improvements and even real-time energy management on neighbourhood scale. Unfortunately, the standard planning processes on neighbourhood ...

This paper describes our ongoing work towards the implementation of an online Web Service Composition system, based on the most prevalent Web Service standards and utilizing other open source projects as sub-elements. The system will treat non-determinism as an inherent characteristic of the problem and will tackle it by exploiting AI planning technology, specifically contingency planning. The ...

Postal and express shipment companies face the task to provide service between a numberof xed locations. The increasing competition and service orientation of this market sets new standards for planning. One must meet the required service level without letting costs get out of control. This paper identiies important planning tasks which have to be addressed at these companies and deenes corresp...

The Web is a huge repository of geospatial information. Efficient retrieval of this information is a key factor in planning and decision-making in many domains, including agriculture. However, standards for data annotation and exchange enable only syntactic interoperability, while semantic heterogeneity presents challenges. This work describes a framework that tackles interoperability problems ...

Highway planning is a process wherein a highway network con­ sidered adequate to meet both the present and future traffic demands of an auto-oriented, ever-growing populace is visualized. It is also the process in which a procedure designed to implement the plan should be formulated. The first step in the planning process is the determination of high­ way needs. The elimination of these needs r...

the ministry of health and medical education of iran, along with the country movement towards achievements of iran's vision 2025 put compilation of the health system reform plan on its agenda. in this article, we are trying to show the method we used for developing this plan and how this method considered the general condition of the country along with maintaining the standards of scientific an...