Planning has been one of the main research areas in AI. For about three decades AI researchers explore alternative paths to build intelligent agents with advanced planning capabilities. However, the classical AI planning techniques suffer from inapplicability to real world domains, due to several assumptions adopted to facilitate research. Attempts to apply planning into real domains must addre...

Looking at the changes in country's education landscape, aspect of creativity is focus Malaysian Education Development Plan (PPPM) 2013-2025 which aims to produce a creative and innovative thinking workforce. This showed that main pillar nurture enhance among students, source human capital country, especially institutions higher learning. Therefore, Islamic lecturers polytechnics should always ...

The purpose of this paper is to propose new evaluation criteria and an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model to assess the expanded national immunization programs (ENIPs) and to evaluate two alternative health care policies. One of the alternative policies is that private clinics and hospitals would offer free vaccination services to children and the other of them is that public health centers...

With the emergence of eTextbooks initiatives on the rise, it is promising that eTextbooks support significant opportunities for improving the educational practices. However, there are both positive and negative reports of using eTextbooks in the academic setting. This study was aimed at exploring the concept of eTextbooks by confirming the opinions from stakeholders on the features and function...

In this study, a Delphi method was used to identify and predict the roles of blended learning approaches in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments. The Delphi panel consisted of experts in online learning from different geographic regions of the world. This study discusses findings related to (a) pros and cons of blended learning approaches in CSCL; (b) blended learning f...

The ranking-type Delphi method is well suited as a means for consensus-building by using a series of questionnaires to collect data from a panel of geographically dispersed participants. This method allows a group of experts to systematically approach a particular task or problem. While information systems researchers have been using this method for almost three decades, no research to date has...

This paper discusses the notion of collective intelligence through the application of the Wideband Delphi method as a way to obtain convergence among a group of experts. The specific application is the definition and calibration of cost estimation models that use data collected from experts as part of their calibration. Convergence is important in this case because companies need to commit to c...

Article history: Received 14 September 2010 Received in revised form 31 March 2011 Accepted 6 April 2011 Available online 20 May 2011 The cornerstone of good research is establishing integrity. However, identifying and gauging methodological rigour for the Delphi technique remains elusive. This is due to a number of reasons such as the ongoing epistemological debate, along with continual modifi...

Three orthogonal memoing techniques for deterministic logic programs are introduced and evaluated on the basis of their empirical performance. They share the same basic idea: eecient memoing is achieved by losing information gracefully, i.e., memoing beneets from a form of abstraction. Abstract answers are most general computed answers of deterministic logic programs obtained through repeated a...

Introduction. The Delphi technique is widely used in library and information science research. However, many researchers in the field fail to employ standard statistical tests when using this technique. This makes the technique vulnerable to criticisms of its reliability and validity. The general goal of this article is to explore how nonparametric statistical techniques could mitigate this dra...