government, support policies with regard to egg producers and consumers were investigated for a set of four (1st to 4th) economic, social, and cultural development plans (1989 - 2008).the supports regarding egg production were estimated through producers and consumers support estimate indicators (pse & cse respectively). the results indicated, that support of producers in the first, third and f...

SIMPROJECTTM is a useful simulation tool structured to follow the project lifecycle aiding students in understanding how projects are managed. In practice, students learn to conceptualize, plan, execute, and terminate projects during the entire project life cycle. In reality, students lack an appreciation of the importance of planning and how to evaluate project information. While, SIMPROJECTTM...

In this paper, we present the modelling of a domain of argumentation-based negotiation with scarce resources so that Hierarchical Task Network planning can be used for finding appropriate strategies for the negotiating agents. In our modelling, the agents justify their positions on interactions throughout the course of a negotiation episode, and such justifications are taken into account in fut...

This paper investigates a novel approach to integrating tactical and strategical decision making and applies it to scheduling the operation of autonomous robot office couriers. In this approach the robot makes strategical (farsighted) decisions while it executes a plan using tactical (immediate) decisions and overwrites tactical decisions after strategical decisions have been reached (if necess...

The way we do science is rather stereotyped. We have hypotheses to test, and we plan the experiments, sometimes a long time ahead, to test these hypotheses. Writing a grant proposal is a typical example: we give a detailed plan of what we are going to do in the coming years. Of course, we never know how a project will evolve, and deviations from the original plan are commonplace, as milestones ...

What relation do the various parts of a plan bear to the overall aim of the plan? In this essay we consider this question in the context of two very different problems in the criminal law. The first, known in the German criminal law literature as the Actio Libera in Causa, involves defendants who contrive to commit crimes under conditions that would normally afford them a justification or excus...

The suicide safety plan is a plan of action created by the clinician and patient that essentially charts the course of what the patient should do if he/she begins to experience suicidal urges. It is important for clinicians to learn how to implement a safety plan so that they can offer this service to their patients and teach their colleagues and associates about suicide safety planning. The sa...

We view planning as a search through a space of plan models. A plan model consists of a partial description of a course of action (a plan) and a set of decision models that support analysis of the plan. In this framework, model building is focussed on the development of techniques to support the incremental evaluation and construction of plans. There are special problems associated with plannin...