The Australian operational level planning doctrine, Joint Military Appreciation Process (JMAP), comprises four consecutive and iterative steps, namely: Mission Analysis (MA), Course of Action (COA) Development, COA Analysis, and Decision & Execution. All four steps are supported by an integral operational level intelligence function called Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace (JIPB...

This study investigates the differences between failed and operational businesses from a psychological perspective. The sample included 71 operational and 20 failed business owners from Suva, the capital of Fiji. It was hypothesized that operational business owners more often employ a detailed and long-term planning strategy, whereas failed business owners more often pursue a reactive strategy,...

In this paper we bridge the gap between performance evaluation and the modelling of business processes. On the basis of a case study from the field of operational planning processes we investigate the performance evaluation of human resource management processes. In particular we consider the affect of timing in operational planning processes. We use TimeNET for modelling. It provides methods n...

Due to a high penetration of renewable energy, power systems operational planning today needs to capture unprecedented uncertainties in a short period. Fast probabilistic state estimation (SE), which creates probabilistic load flow estimates, represents one such planning tool. This paper describes a graphical model for probabilistic SE modeling that captures both the uncertainties and the power...

An important problem in transportation is how to ensure efficient operational route planning when several vehicles share a common road infrastructure with limited capacity. Examples of such a problem are route planning for automated guided vehicles in a terminal and route planning for aircraft taxiing at airports. Maintaining efficiency in such transport planning scenarios can be difficult for ...

A typical crude oil supply chain consists of production oilfields, processing terminals, storage facilities and refineries, interconnected by means of pipelines. In processing terminals, different varieties of base crude-oils are received, processed and blended in order to produce commercial varieties which are exported and/or sent to refineries. In the last decade, very few contributions have ...

Plans as recipes or abstract structures, as well as plans as mental attitudes that guide an agent in its planning process has been enthusiastically embraced by both philosophers and AI practitioners. They play a central role in a class of rational agents, called Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents. This dual view of plans can not only be used for eecient planning, but can also be used for reco...

This paper introduces an energy management system, FeTOP, which provides an optimal operational planning and control scheme of energy plants. It consists of three functions: an energy forecasting function, an optimal operational planning function of the facilities, and a simulation function of the energy plant. In order to generate optimal operational planning for energy plants, startup/shutdow...

The BDI architecture, where agents are modelled based on their beliefs, desires and intentions, provides a practical approach to develop large scale systems. However, it is not well suited to model complex Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems pervaded by uncertainty. In this paper we address this issue by extending the operational semantics of CAN(PLAN) into CAN(PLAN)+. We s...