Generating plans in stochastic planning enviironments is a difficult and time consuming process even with state of the art planners such as FF-Hindsight. This research applies a series of adaptive sampling methods around FF-Hindsight to improve the quality of plans returned by the planner as well as allowing the planner to modify the time it takes to make a decision on an action and base it on ...

3 Soil survey specifications 4 3.1 DSM survey checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2 Statistical inference and use of spatial covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3 Generating a sampling plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.4 Data collection protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.5 Ex ante and ex...

The population dynamics of single species can be understood only in the context of interactions within an ecological community. In this study we used theoretical and empirical models to describe the spatial pattern of the Afrotropical leaf beetles Mesoplatys ochroptera Stål, Exosoma and Ootheca spp. defoliating the agroforestry tree (Sesbania sesban (L.) Merril). We used the Poisson, negative b...

This paper proposes another realistic application of the economic order quantity EOQ model. Researchers have studied EOQ models that assume the received lot contains items that are perfect and imperfect. All models in the literature assume that the received lot goes through a 100% inspection to separate acceptable items from the non-acceptable items. This paper argues that 100% inspection is no...

The method of Bayesian statistical inference is used to derive estimates of operational parameters in a simple system that can be in one of two states: failed, or operative. The sampling plan consists of occasional observations of the system for finite periods: snapshop, plus patch sampling. Numerical examples are given.

We develop an optimization model based on Markovian approach to determine the optimum value of thresholds in a proposed acceptance sampling design. Consider an acceptance sampling plan where items are inspected and when the number of conforming items between successive defective items falls below a lower control threshold value, then the batch is rejected, and if it falls above a control thresh...

Snow-fed River Pinder -a tributary of River Alaknanda in central Himalaya was explored for fish assemblages and habitat specificity. Altogether 27 fish species were reported from three orders, four families and nine genera. Cypriniformes order was dominating followed by Siluriformes and Salmoniformes. Shannon-Weiner diversity index (3.09 to 4.10) and Simpson index of diversity (0.81 to 0.92) of...