Compared to optimal planners, satisficing planners can solve much harder problems but may produce overly costly and long plans. Plan quality for satisficing planners has become increasingly important. The most recent planning competition IPC-2008 used the cost of the best known plan divided by the cost of the generated plan as an evaluation metric. This paper proposes and evaluates two simple b...

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS IN OBESE AND NON-OBESE WOMEN AND THEIRRELATIONSHIP WITH BODY MASS INDEX, PERCEIVED SELF-EFFICACY,PERCEIVED BENEFITS AND BARRIERS OF EXERCISE, AND COMMITMENT TO APLAN OF ACTIONby ROSE M. LANGEAugust 2010 Advisor: Dr. Feleta WilsonMajor: NursingDegree: Doctor of PhilosophyThe purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to examine re...

This paper considers the execution of a MultiAgent Plan in a partially observable environment, and faces the problem of recovering from action failures. The paper formalizes a local plan repair strategy, where each agent in the system is responsible for controlling (monitoring and diagnosing) the actions it executes, and for autonomously repairing its own plan when an action failure is detected...

The recently published Swedish eGovernment Action Plan stresses that “the need of the user should always be an important starting-point in the efforts made by administrations to develop eServices.” But, is that the picture communicated in the action plan? This article reflects critically on the action plan from a marketing perspective. The discussion focuses on citizens as consumers of public e...

The plan mentions that ‘In the European Union alone, a subset of drug-resistant bacteria is responsible annually for some 25 000 deaths, with extra healthcare costs and lost productivity due to antimicrobial resistance amounting to at least €1500 million [2].’ The plan provides a framework for national action plans to combat antimicrobial resistance. Through adoption of the plan, WHO member sta...

OBJECTIVES Sufficient fruit consumption is beneficial for a healthy live. While many Dutch adults intent to eat the recommended amount of fruit, only 5-10% of the population actually adheres to the recommendation. One mechanism that can help to narrow this gap between intention and actual fruit consumption is action planning. However, action planning is only assumed to be effective if plans are...

The hypothesis of this article is that the interactions between the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus play a critical role in the modulation of goal-directed self-action and the strengthening of episodic memories. We describe various theories that model a comparator function for the hippocampus, and then elaborate the empirical evidence that supports these theories. One theory which describ...