post disaster reconstruction in the destructed zones entails the social aspects in addition to the physical and urban aspects, because of the presence of affected people in the very location. the presented research aims to assess the social aspects of the post disaster conditions in the course of reconstruction, which take into consideration the related social factors in the affected community....

We propose a formal theory to capture qualitatively the characteristics of utility-relevance and effect-uncertainty of chance. It sets a definite boundary between chance discovery and classical artificial intelligence planning: the former pursues partial realization of desire while the latter complete realization. The theory also provides a formal specification and deriving machinery for partia...

This paper discusses the critical use and lessons learned from the single case model while implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system at a leading university. The researcher examined one university’s business ERP in the deployment of a new enterprise system, a complex phenomenon which took place over several stages and involved different players at each stage. The paper discusses...

Partial order based reduction (POR) has recently attracted research in planning. POR algorithms reduce search space by recognizing interchangable orders between actions and expanding only a subset of all possible orders during the search. POR has been extensively studied in model checking and proved to be an enabling technique for reducing the search space and costs. Recently, two POR algorithm...

Although it appears that a theoretical body of knowledge for the Financial Planning Profession has always existed, until recently theory was not often explored as such, and there was no written common understanding or agreement on the theoretical basis of the financial planning profession. A survey of the financial planning literature over the past 50 years was performed, and certain basic theo...

The objective of this paper is to review briefly the theory of contemporary sustainable landscape planning, to present a typology of landscape-planning methods and apply the typology to several landscape-planning frameworks and methods. Sustainability is an international policy goal with multiple dimensions and implications for planning. Landscape planning prescribes alternative spatial configu...

This paper investigates decision-theoretic planning in sophisticated autonomous agents operating in environments of real-world complexity. An example might be a planetary rover exploring a largely unknown planet. It is argued th a t existing algorithms for decision-theoretic planning are based on a logically incorrect theory of rational decision making. Plans cannot be evaluated directly in ter...