Putting the Principles of Climate Change Adaptation into Practice Coast to Challenge is first LIFE IP project on climate adaptation. The aims create climate-resilient cities in a region. We do this based local adaptation plans municipalities made back 2014. efforts must be more coherent and holistic, with added value long-term sustainability.

The preparation of high quality emergency plans to guide operational decisions is an approach to mitigate the emergency management complexity. In such multidisciplinary scenario, teams with different perspectives need to collaborate towards a common goal and interact within a common understanding. In this scenario, the characterization of the variability of the elements involved in these plans ...

Applications in our modern, pervasive computing environments have to adapt themselves or their context in order to cope with changes. In the process, these pervasive applications should be as unobtrusive as possible, i.e., their adaptation should be automatic. In dynamic multi-user systems with shared resources and interactive applications, such adaptations cannot be scripted in advance. Instea...

Cities with a Mediterranean-type climate (Med-cities) are particularly susceptible to health risks from climate change since they are located in biogeographical hot-spots that experience some of the strongest effects of the changing climate. The study aims to highlight health impacts of climate change in Med-cities, analyze local climate adaptation plans and make adaptation policy recommendatio...

What is Medicaid HEDIS? HEDIS (Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set) is the performance measurement system for health plans developed by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). The NCQA is an organization which accredits health plans as well as other types of health care organizations. The number of NCQA accredited managed care plans now exceeds 330, covering three quarter...

We present a domain independent off-line adaptation technique called Stochastic Plan Optimization for finding and improving plans in real-time strategy games. Our method is based on ideas from genetic algorithms but we utilize a different representation for our plans and an alternate initialization procedure for our search process. The key to our technique is the use of expert plans to initiali...

The adaptation of cities to climate change is becoming an increasingly pressing need. choice optimal solutions for difficult as it requires individual approach. One way avoiding poor decisions use the experience which have already implemented solutions. aim work was identify measures conducted part implementation municipal plan Poznań and evaluate if complied with adopted strategic goals specif...

Biological adaptation is a powerful mechanism that makes many disorders hard to combat. In this paper we study steering such adaptation through sequential planning. We propose a general approach where we leverage Monte Carlo tree search to compute a treatment plan, and the biological entity is modeled by a black-box simulator that the planner calls during planning. We show that the framework ca...