Climate change and the accompanying social risks have already become one of main problems world community. An increase in frequency duration natural disasters (floods, typhoons, mudflows, etc.) lead to significant loss life. Heat waves caused excess mortality among urban population, especially Russian megacities. WHO initiated development national adaptation plans, Russia has accumulated some e...

Domain-independent general-purpose planning has focused on reducing the search involved in an existing generalpurpose planning algorithm. An interesting alternative is to use example plans to demonstrate how to solve problems in a particular domain and to use that information to solve new problems independently of a domain-independent planner. Others have used example plans for case-based plann...

Generating optimal plans in highly dynamic environments is challenging. Plans are predicated on an assumed initial state, but this state can change unexpectedly during plan generation, potentially invalidating the planning effort. In this paper we make three contributions: (1) We propose a novel algorithm for generating optimal plans in settings where frequent, unexpected events interfere with ...

A growing number of cities are preparing for climate change by developing adaptation plans, but little is known about how these plans and their implementation affect the vulnerability groups experiencing various forms underlying social inequity. This review synthesizes research exploring justice equity issues inherent in planning to lay foundation critical assessment action from an perspective....

Post-optimization through local search is known to be a powerful approach for complex optimization problems. In this paper we tackle the problem of optimizing individual activity plans, i.e., plans that concern activities that one person has to accomplish independently of others, taking into account complex constraints and preferences. Recently, this problem has been addressed adequately using ...

Planning is the process of formulating a potential course of action. How courses of action (plans) produced by a planning module are represented and how they are used by execution-oriented modules of a complex agent to innuence or dictate behavior are critical architectural issues. In contrast to the traditional model of plans as executable programs that dictate precise behaviors, we claim that...

By investigating model-independent bounds for exotic options in financial mathematics, a martingale version of the Monge-Kantorovich mass transport problem was introduced in [3, 24]. In this paper, we extend the one-dimensional Brenier’s theorem to the present martingale version. We provide the explicit martingale optimal transference plans for a remarkable class of coupling functions correspon...