The acquisition of planning knowledge for industrial processes has been shown to be particularly hard in terms of acquiring robust task knowledge from human experts. Furthermore, this knowledge, when acquired, is rather domain dependent and the acquisition effort is very seldom amortized over other applications. In this paper, we report on our work on flexibly representing a functional model of...

Action planning is generally done in two stages: (1) building the search space and (2) searching it for a solution. The way work load is shared between these stages depends on the particular approach in use. Similarly to GRAPHPLAN (Blum and Furst 1997), TOKENPLAN alternates explicit stages of searchspace expansion, with explicit stages of plan search and extraction. The particularity of our pla...

This paper presents a longitudinal case study at Smartner Information Systems, a small software product company operating in a dynamic and uncertain environment. Smartner successfully combines flexibility and control in their product development process. Flexibility is gained with monthly sprints, after which new decisions about project scope can be made in planning the following sprint. Contro...

When planning a trip, one essential task is to find a set of Places-of-Interest (POIs) which can be visited during the trip. Using existing travel guides or websites such as Lonely Planet and TripAdvisor, the user has to either manually work out a desirable set of POIs or take pre-configured travel packages; the former can be time consuming while the latter lacks flexibility. In this demonstrat...

The neuropsychological profile of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is unclear. Past investigations have produced seemingly inconsistent results concerning precisely what neuropsychological deficits characterize the patient with BPD. A meta-analysis of 10 studies was conducted comparing BPD and healthy comparison groups on selected neuropsychological measures comprising six domains of funct...

This paper presents a 3D online path planning algorithm for a 6DOF Rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (RUAV) operating in a cluttered environment using a Gaussian Process (GP) occupancy map. Traditional grid-based occupancy maps suffer from the curse of dimensionality for platforms that operate in a high dimensional configuration space. In addition, the grid resolutions, shapes and orientations lim...

Supply chains are facing different types of uncertainty associated with today‘s business environment. Uncertainty in the supply chain may arise from a number of sources such as demand and supply interruptions, production/logistics capacity changes and lead time variability. To cope with this problem and lessen the impacts of such uncertainties, an effective strategy is to incorporate flexibilit...

Background: Protein flexibility, which has been referred as a dynamic behavior has various roles in proteins’ functions. Furthermore, for some developed tools in bioinformatics, such as protein-protein docking software, considering the protein flexibility, causes a higher degree of accuracy. Through undertaking the present work, we have accomplished the quantification plus analysis of the varia...

Process planning determines how to produce the designed products using available manufacturing resources economically; thus the manufacturing resources perform a major part in the field of process planning. Most modeling approaches of the manufacturing resources, however, have been studied to cope with production planning and control problems, or to unleash the under-utilized resource flexibili...