Contingency operations are by their nature unpredictable and high-risk, with undeveloped logistical support, and medical provision is no exception. Can the contingency experiences of the last three decades help to predict the type of casualties that may be seen in future contingency operations? By reviewing published casualty statistics available from Operations CORPORATE, TELIC 1 and HERRICK 4...

An increasing volume of business activity appears to be occurring via alliances or other interfirm arrangements in which complex contracts are featured, yet there has been relatively little study of contract design in the strategy or management literatures. The economics literature on contracting has been extensive, but it has been less concerned with learning and evolution—phenomena in which s...

Contingency planning is the first stage in developing a formal set of production planning and control activities for the reuse of products obtained via return flows in a closed-loop supply chain. The paper takes a contingency approach to explore the factors that impact production planning and control for closed-loop supply chains that incorporate product recovery. A series of three cases are pr...

In the area of power system planning and operation, contingency analysis plays an important role. In the present days, on-line security assessment is done by contingency ranking, with the help of various computer software, incorporating iterative method like Newton Raphson power flow for obtaining the magnitudes of different parameters. The motive of contingency ranking is to create a short lis...

Planning under uncertainty is a difficult task. If sensory information is available, it is possible to do contingency planning – that is, develop plans where certain branches are executed conditionally, based on the outcome of sensory actions. However, even without sensory information, it is often possible to develop useful plans that succeed no matter which of the allowed states the world is a...

Planning systems are typically told what goals to pursue and cannot modify them. Some methods (e.g., for contingency planning, dynamic replanning) can respond to execution failures, but usually ignore opportunities and do not reason about the goals themselves. Goal-Driven Autonomy (GDA) relaxes some common assumptions of classical planning (e.g., static environments, fixed goals, no unpredictab...

The outage of power system equipment is one the most important factors that affect reliability and economy system. It crucial to consider influence contingencies elaborately in planning problem. In this paper, a distributionally robust transmission expansion model proposed which uncertainty contingency probability considered. described by interval based on rate single equipment. An epigraph ref...

Most AI representations and algorithms for plan generation have not included the concept of informationproducing actions (also called diagnostics, or tests, in the decision making literature). We present a planning representation and algorithm that models information-producing actions and constructs plans that exploit the information produced by those actions. We extend the buridan (Kushmerick ...