South America is experiencing profound land use and cover changes. Their consequences on the Ecosystem Services (ES) supply human well-being need to be diagnosed monitored in order support informed decisions both management territorial planning. The ES concept provides a key framework evaluate impacts nature. of spatially explicit indicators able characterize can turn operative framework, enabl...

Automated domain factoring, and planning methods that utilize them, have long been of interest to planning researchers. Recent work in this area yielded new theoretical insight and algorithms, but left many questions open: How to decompose a domain into factors? How to work with these factors? And whether and when decomposition-based methods are useful? This paper provides theoretical analysis ...

Dynamic programming algorithms have been successfully applied to propositional stochastic planning problems by using compact representations, in particular algebraic decision diagrams, to capture domain dynamics and value functions. Work on symbolic dynamic programming lifted these ideas to first order logic using several representation schemes. Recent work introduced a first order variant of d...