This research addresses robust incident management techniques in distributed environments with autonomous actors. Focusing on applications in operational pickup and delivery transportation planning, the distributed environment consists of a transport network, vehicles controlled by operational agents and pickup and delivery tasks with time-windows. The two main challenges of this research are t...

Airlines are continually faced with the challenge of efficient utilization of their cockpit crew resources. In addition to regular flying crews, some airlines have to maintain significant reserve staffing levels to meet contractual obligations and provide smooth daily operations. Reserve crews are required to cover trips remaining unassigned due to disruptions during daily operations. Airlines ...

This paper draws its inspiration from current work in reactive planning to guide plan recognition using \plans as recipes". The plan recognition process guided by such a library of plans is called means-end plan recognition. An extension of dynamic logic, called dynamic agent logic, is introduced to provide a formal semantics for means-end plan recognition and its counterpart, means-end plan ex...

Smart Grids are result of utilizing novel technologies such as distributed energy resources, and communication technologies in power system to compensate some of its defects. Various power resources provide some benefits for operation domain however, power system operator should use a powerful methodology to manage them. Renewable resources and load add uncertainty to the problem. So, independe...

Supporting wildfire management activities is frequently identified as a benefit of forest roads. As such, there growing body research into road planning, construction, and maintenance to improve fire surveillance, prevention, access, control operations. Of interest here how networks directly support operations, managers incorporate that information pre-season assessment planning. In this commun...

This conference provides a good opportunity to rethink operational planning. Currently, there are many efforts to tweak operational planning, whether by providing a greater emphasis on desired effects, on operational design that precedes planning, or through automation and battle management systems. These efforts are all likely to increase the efficiency of the current operational planning proc...