In an environment with multiple autonomous agents, the performance of an action may have effects on the beliefs and goals of the witnessing agents in addition to the direct effects. The awareness of such mental effects is critical for the success of a plan in multi-agent environments. This paper provides a formulation of social plans, and show that social planning can be done by including model...

Every technology has a social imprint of the society where it evolves and also where it gets used. Transport technologies and systems are no exception. Transport technologies are used in public spaces, in the presence of intended users and non users. Urban transport systems development, planning and operations evolve to meet the mobility needs of the society. The existing patterns also reflect ...

As robots enter environments that they share with people, human-aware planning and interaction become key tasks to be addressed. For doing so, robots need to reason about the places and times when and where humans are engaged into which activity and plan their actions accordingly. In this paper, we first address this issue by learning a nonhomogenous spatial Poisson process whose rate function ...

Only recently spatial planning is rediscovered as a strategic process. This paper introduces the concept of social paradoxes to describe the contradicting requirements spatial planners have to meet in their daily work. Among the most important social paradoxes with regard to strategic planning is the one between deliberative planning and incremental adaptation to emergent developments. The pape...

The scholarly thrust of urban planning is its use of, as well as its contribution to, social science. As a discipline bordering with civil engineering, furthermore, urban planning has always carried also an important cross-disciplinary message beyond social science. Yet the association of urban planning with humanistic disciplines and the fine arts has been undervalued or ignored altogether. At...