After the collapse of socialism and the consequent land privatisation process, Central Europe was left with an unfavourable agricultural production structure. In this light, the exchange of Western European knowledge on land consolidation seemed logical and effective. Looking back, a match that seemed at the time to be straightforward now appears much more complex. This paper aims to provide in...

In this paper, we propose a methodology integrating discrete event simulation based on the fuzzy set theory to solve the scheduling planning problem for construction operations in a new semiconductor building. Unlike traditional construction scheduling approaches that only cope with quantitative data, fuzzy set-based methods provide proper instruments for expressing planners’ linguistic terms t...

The impact of urban experimentation on planning approaches is so far insufficiently assessed and discussed. This thematic issue sets out to investigate the possibilities limitations ‘urban by experiment,’ defined as an approach that uses innovate improve instruments, approaches, outcomes. It brings together eight contributions presenting original research its relation planning. All are empirica...

Planning research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has often focused on problems where there are cascading levels of action choice and complex interactions between actions. In contrast, Scheduling research has focused on much larger problems where there is little action choice, but the resulting ordering problem is hard. In this paper, we give an overview of AI planning and scheduling techniques...

“The process of formulating and implementing land policies is not only politically and technically difficult, it can also be costly. However, the costs of not formulating and implementing them are much higher” (Dowall, David & Clark Giles, 1997). Cities do not develop according to planners’ wishes – to the contrary, in the present and past, cities have always shown their own dynamic of developm...

The legislation of ISTEA and CAAA in the early 1990s have significant impacts on the notion of sustainable transportation planning. Their provisions allow local communities to implement planning strategies towards the goals of sustainable development. Meanwhile, there has been increasing recognition of the need to establish instruments to evaluate the progress of the implementation of sustainab...

Control Strategies and Motion Planning for Nanopositioning Applications with Multi-Axis Magnetic-Levitation Instruments. (May 2007) Huzefa Shakir, B. Tech. (Honors), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Won-jong Kim This dissertation is the first attempt to demonstrate the use of magnetic-levitation (maglev) positioners for commercial applications requiring...

OBJECTIVES To assess the accuracy of patient-specific instruments (PSIs) versus standard manual technique and the precision of computer-assisted planning and PSI-guided osteotomies in pelvic tumour resection. METHODS CT scans were obtained from five female cadaveric pelvises. Five osteotomies were designed using Mimics software: sacroiliac, biplanar supra-acetabular, two parallel iliopubic an...

PROBLEM/CONDITION Public health surveillance data describing family planning services at Title X clinics and characteristics of women receiving these services during 1991 are contained in this report. These data update previously published information concerning characteristics of women and services at such clinics during 1981. REPORTING PERIOD COVERED 1991. DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM Data chara...