this paper considers the spatial planning system in russian federation. study of spatial planning system of russia specifies three different stages from each other. the first phase consists of the sixteenth century until the early twentieth century. in this period, base of the spatial planning was formed and gradually developed during approximately 400 years. the next phase is devoted to soviet...

The major planning theories provide a theoretical foundation for environmental planning. This study extends the major planning theories and develops a robust conceptual framework to measure the key factors influencing local environmental-plan quality. A random sample of forty Californian local comprehensive land-use plans and associated planning processes is analyzed to identify the critical fa...

Autonomous surface vehicles (ASV) are becoming more widely used in environmental monitoring applications. Due to the limited duration of these vehicles, algorithms need to be developed to save energy and maximize monitoring efficiency. This paper compares receding horizon path planning models for their effectiveness at collecting usable data in an aquatic environment. An adaptive receding horiz...

The importance of establishing and sustaining academic-public health practice linkages has been a point of emphasis in the Institute of Medicine reports on public health in 1988 and in 2003. One likely barrier to fostering such linkages is the absence of a clear framework that matches academic requirements to practice realities. This article describes how an academic-public health practice coll...

Over recent years, optimisation and evolutionary search have seen substantial interest in the MDE research community. Many of these techniques require the specification of an optimisation problem to include a set of model transformations for deriving new solution candidates from existing ones. For some problems—for example, planning problems, where the domain only allows specific actions to be ...

In this paper we present a Reactive GRASP approach to a commercial territory design problem motivated by a real-world application in a beverage distribution firm. The mathematical framework includes, as planning criteria, minimizing a measure of territory dispersion, balancing the different node activity measures among territories and territory contiguity. The proposed GRASP approach incorporat...

A path planning method of mobile robot using both fuzzy logic and driver’s driving experience is proposed. Double layers fuzzy logic is used to control both the speed and the turning angle of the mobile robot. A method of “virtual target” is introduced to deal with the problem of local minimal, which often occurs in local path planning. The results of simulation and experiment show its effectiv...