A disciplined design process does not guarantee a complete and flawless model of a planning problem, even with the existing methods and tools available in the AI community. A post-design project phase can identify essential hidden knowledge and directly impact the final planning system. The central theme of this paper is the design of a domain-independent framework to structure the post-design ...

Immense levels of data and the complexity of current logistics networks have made software support indispensable. Recurring calculations in network design and transportation planning can be automated with the help of planning software. Furthermore sophisticated algorithms are available to improve planning performance and reduce planning efforts. After a brief introduction of requirements in log...

Conceptual process planning is an activity for designers to evaluate manufacturability and the manufacturing cost in the early design stage for mechanical parts production. Since major manufacturing costs of a product are committed in product specification and design, it is critical to be able to assess manufacturability and cost as early as possible in the design process. At the National Insti...

The online observation of a construction site and processes bears significant advantage to all business sector. BIM is the combination of a 3D model of the project and a project-planning program which improves the project planning model by up to 6D (Adding Time, Cost and Material Information dimensions to the model). RFID technology is an appropriate information synchronization tool between the...

The use of 3D computer-aided design (CAD) models to support construction project planning has been increasing in the previous year. 3D CAD models reveal more planning ideas by visually showing the construction site environment in different stages of the construction process. Using 3D CAD models together with scheduling software to prepare construction plan can identify errors in process sequenc...

The paper is based on the authors’ work for the HiTrans Interreg III-project (Nielsen, Lange et al. 2005), recent work on a good practice guide for public transport system design in rural and small town regions for the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications (Nielsen and Lange 2008), earlier literature studies and consultancy work for various public transport bodies in Norway. The id...

Understanding and preventing overrtting is a very important issue in artiicial neural network design, implementation, and application. Weigend (1994) reports that the presence and absence of overrtting in neural networks depends on how the testing error is measured, and that there is no overrtting in terms of the classiication error (symbolic-level errors). In this paper, we show that, in terms...

Stochastics affects the optimal design of a network. This paper examines the single-source single-commodity stochastic network design problem. We characterize the optimal designs under demand uncertainty and compare with the deterministic counterparts to outline the basic structural differences. We do this partly as a basis for developing better algorithms than are available today, partly to si...