Online information technologies are becoming essential tools for urban planning as they support information sharing and participatory decision making in the planning process. Therefore this paper underlines the importance of online planning and e-participation, examines household use of information technology, and discusses the digital divide problem. This paper also explores Australian local g...

Landscape has acquired great importance in the urban and territorial policies of European countries after Convention. Italy a long tradition protection landscape cultural heritage, characterised by particular attention to history identity culture communities. The main rule this field, Code Cultural Heritage 2004 (Urbani Code), refers mix environmental, cultural, social factors belonging differe...

Domain-independent planning is a hard combinatorial problem. Taking into account plan quality makes the task even more di cult. We introduce a new paradigm for e cient high-quality planning that exploits plan rewriting rules and e cient local search techniques to transform an easy-to-generate, but possibly suboptimal, initial plan into a low-cost plan. In addition to addressing the issues of e ...

This paper describes ILP-PLAN, a framework for solving AI planning problems represented as integer linear programs. ILP-PLAN extends the planning as satisfiability framework to handle plans with resources, action costs, and complex objective functions. We show that challenging planning problems can be effectively solved using both traditional branchand-bound IP solvers and efficient new integer...

The treatment of exogenous events in planning is practically important in many realworld domains where the preconditions of certain plan actions are affected by such events. In this paper we focus on planning in temporal domains with exogenous events that happen at known times, imposing the constraint that certain actions in the plan must be executed during some predefined time windows. When ac...

Domain-independent planning is a hard combinatorial problem. Taking into account plan quality makes the task even more difficult. This article introduces Planning by Rewriting (PbR), a new paradigm for efficient high-quality domain-independent planning. PbR exploits declarative plan-rewriting rules and efficient local search techniques to transform an easy-to-generate, but possibly suboptimal, ...