Hybrid ground source heat pump (HyGSHP) systems are gaining popularity as a means of decreasing long term energy and maintenance costs while maintaining manageable first costs. The incorporation of a supplemental heat rejecter into a standard GSHP design introduces several complexities. One of the major challenges involves determining the optimal control strategy for such a system. This paper i...

Water flooding is a common technology of enhanced oil recovery and has been widely used to the world's oil fields. But it is difficult to maintain a uniform displacement of water, which causes the ineffective circulation of injected water. Therefore, the real-time dynamic control strategy is studied to work out development plans scientifically and make better economic profits in this paper. The...

Background National cancer control plans (NCCPs) are important documents that guide strategic priorities in cancer care and plan for the appropriate allocation of resources based on the social, geographic and economic needs of a population. Despite the emphasis on health equity by the World Health Organization (WHO), few NCCPs have ...

The paper presents an architecture for an autonomous robotic agent, which carries on a plan in a partially observable environment. A Supervisor module is in charge of assuring the correct execution of the plan, possibly by inferring alternative recovery plans when unexpected contingencies occur. In the present paper we describe a control strategy where a human user is directly involved in the c...

In plan reuse, refitting is the process of modifying an existing plan to make it applicable to a new problem situation. An efficient refitting strategy needs to be conservative, i.e., it should minimally modify the ex­ isting plan to fit it to the new problem situation. In this paper we present techniques for conservative refitting control by utilizing the annotated dependency structures of an ...

The contamination control plan is central to good manufacturing practice (GMP) because it describes the procedures and policies designed to create products under controlled conditions. The contamination control plan covers all phases of a facility's status and, therefore, plays a major part in the master validation plan. The author provides an overview of the contamination control plan as it ap...