Research in Artiicial Intelligence on constraint-based representations for temporal reasoning has largely concentrated on two kinds of formalisms: systems of simple linear inequalities to encode metric relations between time points, and systems of binary constraints in Allen's temporal calculus to encode qualitative relations between time intervals. Each formalism has certain advantages. Linear...

The artificial potential field based path planning has been most wisely used for local path planning because it provides simple and efficient motion planners for practical purposes. However, this approach has a local minimum problem which can trap a robot before reaching its goal. The local minimum problem is sometimes inevitable when a mobile robot moves in unknown environments, because the ro...

Local jurisdictions’ coastal zone land use plans play an important role in protecting critical coastal resources and ensuring coastal communities’ sustainable development. This study extends the previous national and regional measurement systems to local coastal zone land use planning. This study evaluates 46 California local jurisdictions’ coastal zone land use plans and analyzes the factors i...

The World Health Organization was established in 1948 as a specialized agency of the United Nations serving as the directing and coordinating authority for international health matters and public health. One of WHO’s constitutional functions is to provide objective and reliable information and advice in the field of human health, a responsibility that it fulfils in part through its publications...

In this paper, we consider planning motions of objects of regular shape rolling on a plane among obstacles. Theoretical foundations and applications of this type of operations in robotic manipulation and locomotion have been discussed elsewhere. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm that improves upon existing techniques in that: i) it is finitely computable and predictable (an upper boun...

Local-search approaches promise very interesting features for planning, such as an anytime computation and an uncomplicated handling of the environment’s dynamics. However, most local-search approaches require the availability of maximal structures what causes problems of scalability. Local search within a generative planning process is rarely looked into. This article presents some basic heuri...

swot analysis is used extensively as an assessment and planning method, particularly in tourism planning. however, there are little documentations on application of swot analysis in ecotourism. an assessment on systematic use of swot analysis was carried out in the present study to highlight the applicability of the swot technique in detailed investigations. in this study, based on field survey...

Local-search approaches promise very interesting features for planning, such as an anytime computation and an uncomplicated handling of the environment's dynamics. However, most local-search approaches require the availability of maximal structures what causes problems of scalability. Local search within a generative planning process is rarely looked into. This article presents some basic heuri...

Creating healthier and more sustainable cities requires new approaches to planning at the local level. Queensland Health, Local Governments and Griffith University have formed a working partnership to implement Municipal Public Health Planning (MPHP) in local government. Each city has its own culture and diversity, its own political and organisational barriers to planning, and changing health p...