The proliferation of community-based collaborative approaches to public land management and planning has spawned many questions regarding issues of community representation and the effects of participation for local residents. This paper presents a longitudinal assessment of local resident participation in collaborative forest planning on local community–forest relations in southwestern Colorad...

cesses. We overview the project, the results, and the points to where the remaining research is directed. The research looks at collaboration in general and planning in particular. Our project goal was to investigate agent-based frameworks for distributed collaborative planning using a goal-centered approach. One major thrust of the project was to examine intelligent agent and mul-tiagent syste...

We apply decision theoretic techniques to construct nonplayer characters that are able to assist a human player in collaborative games. The method is based on solving Markov decision processes, which can be difficult when the game state is described by many variables. To scale to more complex games, the method allows decomposition of a game task into subtasks, each of which can be modelled by a...

In traditional sales planning models, planning activities typically are based on a range of disjointed and nonstandard business processes. That fragmentation creates longer implementation cycle times, with resulting plans misaligned with real-time/unfolding market and regulatory dynamics. Targets are not precise, data is difficult to collect and distribute, and sales professionals are not as ef...