major grid company faced multiple challenges in their grid planning, adapting to the penetration of solar photovoltaics, new sets of regulation, demand side management, and other developments that changed the utility’s context. The grid company wanted to move beyond their current scenario planning and make their grid planning more robust for a wide range of future scenario’s. UMS Group was enga...

This document provides a brief proposal for “Robust Optimization & Robust Control Synthesis” reading group.

We present here an overview of several planning techniques in robotics. We will not be concerned with the synthesis of abstract mission and task plans, using well known classical and other domain-independent planning techniques. We will mainly focus on to how refine such abstract plans into robust sensory-motor actions and on some planning techniques that can be useful for that. The paper intro...

We argue that Discourse Representation Structures form a suitable level of languageneutral meaning representation for micro planning and surface realisation. DRSs can be viewed as the output of macro planning, and form the rough plan and structure for generating a text. We present the first ideas of building a large DRS corpus that enables the development of broad-coverage, robust text generato...

This paper presents a novel planning framework, called PLATINUM that advances the state of the art with the ability of dealing with temporal uncertainty both at planning and plan execution level. PLATINUM is a comprehensive planning system endowed with (i) a new algorithm for temporal planning with uncertainty, (ii) heuristic search capabilities grounded on hierarchical modelling and (iii) a ro...

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...