The IT Plan is generally seen as a cornerstone of the IS/IT presence in an organisation. Researchers have outlined various approaches to IT planning and many have suggested categorising such plans in terms of an evolutionary model detailing the degree of integration with organisational business plans. To determine how IT plans are developed in practice and the actual forces at play the study in...

We present a simple and precise definition of generalized planning together with five natural dimensions of quality for measuring any generalized plan. We argue that no existing approach excels in all these dimensions. In the remainder of the paper we present a new approach to generalized planning that addresses all five of these dimensions. The Problem of Generalized Planning Over the years, m...

The aim of this paper is to combine standard planning, replanning and multi-agent planning into a rigorous unifying framework, extending an existing logic-based approach to resource-based planning. In this Action Resource Framework (ARF), actions and resources are the primitive concepts. Actions consume and produce resources. Plans are structured objects composed of actions and resource schemes...

In classical planning we are faced with the fol­ lowing formal task: Given a set A of permissible actions, a description a of init ial states and a description of final states, determine a plan I I , i.e. a finite sequence of actions from A, such that execution of II begun in any state satis­ fying is guaranteed to terminate in a state satisfying In this paper we extend the classical model of p...

This paper deals with plan execution on agents/robots in highly dynamic environments. Besides a formal semantics of plan execution and a representation of plans as programs, we introduce the concept of plan invariants. Plan invariants are similar to loop invariants in imperative programs in that they have to be true during the whole plan execution cycle. Once a plan invariant fails the plan exe...

State-of-the-art relational and continuous algorithms alike have focused on producing optimal or near-optimal query plans by minimizing a single cost function. However, ensuring accurate yet real-time responses for stream processing applications necessitates that the system identifies qualified rather than optimal query plans with the former guaranteeing that their utilization of both the CPU a...

the present article studies and analyses plan and planning in iran with respect to parameters of the idea of formation, birth, objectives, strategy and its functioning. iran has half-a-century record of planning, and has implemented 7 constructional and developmental plans so far (5 plans before and 2 plans after the revolution). right now, iran is implementing her third developmental plan. two...