We hypothesized that the use of an Action Plan might assist self-management for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). A pilot process and randomized, controlled study were undertaken to evaluate an Action Plan that provided advice on management of usual care and exacerbations, together with a booklet on self-management. Fifty six subjects with COPD recruited through genera...

Within the current operations and exploration goal, Diamond Value Management (DVM) features in two of the strategic leverage areas. These are ➤ Operational margin improvement ➤ Growth and delivery to plan. The objective of Diamond Value Management within this action plan is to provide a 10–20% improvement in the dollar per ton revenue across the group mines (using 1998 actual figures as the bas...

Progress in cognitive robotics can come either from efforts to provide physical robots with more autonomy, or from efforts to make AI techniques more generally applicable to the needs of robotic agents. We are conducting research on dynamic plan management, which is an instance of the latter type of effort. In this paper, we provide an overview of our research project. Plan management is the pr...

Anitnal Waste Managetnent Planning A labama farmers have always valued good land and clean water. When they are informed, responsible citizen farmers take the necessary steps within their economic means to care for these important natural resources. This is true with today's situation concerning water quality and animal waste management. As farmers understand how to protect Alabama's waters fro...

The action language BC provides an elegant way of formalizing dynamic domains which involve indirect effects of actions and recursively defined fluents. In complex robot task planning domains, it may be necessary for robots to plan with incomplete information, and reason about indirect or recursive action effects. In this paper, we demonstrate how BC can be used for robot task planning to solve...