The theory of constraints is an approach to production planning and control that emphasizes on the constraints to increase throughput by effectively managing constraint resources. One application in theory of constraints is product mix decision. Product mix influences the performance measures in multi-product manufacturing system. This paper presents an alternative approach by using of goal pro...

This paper presents a theory expressed in first-order logic for describing and supporting inference about action, knowledge, planning, and communication, in an egalitarian multi-agent setting. The underlying ontology of the theory uses a situation-based temporal model and a possible-worlds model of knowledge. It supports plans and communications of a very general kind, both informative communic...

This essay draws on the transaction costs model of the firm and an Austrian perspective on the knowledge problem in centrally planned orders to propose an empirically useful Austrian theory of central planning. After an initial review of existing theories of the firm, part two develops insights from the calculation debate to sketch a theory of planning centered on the interrelated problems of p...

The incidence of disconnect between the modern and local economy in development urban regions has sustained productivity decline Africa since mid-twentieth century. resilience status quo, regardless neo-liberal planning intervention, necessitates search for an alternative approach. This paper considers neo-mercantile option, which seeks to restructure space through spatial integration. shares h...

Though domain-dependent planners can be more efficient than general-purpose planners, no flexible and straight-forward framework is available to generate them. The trend in implementing planners has been to write general-purpose planners through traditional human-intensive programming effort. This thesis presents a general method for automatically generating efficient domain-specific classical ...