We present a technique to further narrow the gap between recipe-based and domain theory-based plan recognition through decompositional planning, a planning model that combines hierarchical reasoning as used in hierarchical task networks, and least-commitment refinement reasoning as used in partial-order causal link planning. We represent recipes through decompositional planning operators and us...

We are engaged in a research project aimed at the synthesis of reactive plans [BDg0, GK91, Kabg0, Mitg0, DKKN93a]. Reactive plans are different from classical plans in that they are specified as a collection of rules or "reactions" of the form S =~ a, where S is a description (perhaps partial) of a situation or state and is an action executable by the agent (such rules have also been called sit...

The search for scientific bases for confronting problems of social policy is bound to fail, because of the nature of these problems. They are "wicked" problems, whereas science has developed to deal with "tame" problems. Policy problems cannot be definitively described. Moreover, in a pluralistic society there is nothing like the undisputable public good; there is no objective definition of equ...

On May 17th 1999, NASA activated for the first time an AI-based planner/scheduler running on the flight processor of a spacecraft. This was part of the Remote Agent Experiment (RAX), a demonstration of closedloop planning and execution, and model-based state inference and failure recovery. This paper describes the RAX Planner/Scheduler (RAX-PS), both in terms of the underlying planning framewor...

In order to explore the complexities of developing a strategic marketing plan, this article is written in three parts. The first describes the strategic marketing planning process itself and the key steps within it. It also deals with implementation issues and barriers to marketing planning. The second part provides guidelines for the marketer which will ensure that the input to the marketing p...

Green Capacity Planning is a holistic planning approach for today’s data centers that incorporates environmental considerations into traditional computer and network capacity planning. This paper presents the methodology, terminology, and practical application of the approach with a case study that evaluates the capacity, storage, and energy footprint of an existing eCommerce system. The case s...

Decision analysis and interactive planning appear to be two totally unrelated processes. As this paper shows, new results on the interpretation of utility functions and new ways of thinking about downstream decisions allows us to reinterpret interactive planning as a natural extension of decision analysis to complex organizational problems.