Despite the historical difference in focus between AI planning techniques and Integer Programming (IP) techniques, recent research has shown that IP techniques show significant promise in their ability to solve AI planning problems. This paper provides approaches to encode AI planning problems as IP problems, describes some of the more significant issues that arise in using IP for AI planning, ...

In order to optimize access to the increasing amount of information, a classic solution has been data representation. The aim of this research is to uncover and systematize the factors and dimensions involved in the data representation issue and more exactly in the planning and design of the information products (IP) and their previous representation processes (RP). QFD (quality function deploy...

Motivated by the requirements of many real-life applications, recent research in AI planning has shown a growing interest in tackling problems that involve numeric constraints and complex optimization objectives. Applying Integer Programming (IP) to such domains seems to have a significant potential, since it can naturally accommodate their representational requirements. In this paper we explor...

In recent years, open innovation and intellectual property rights have become critical factors to gain superior sustainable performance. However, existing literature pays little attention different strategies their interplay with IP management approaches in improving Drawing on the contractual/non-contractual view, this study explores how external partnering sourcing affect performance, moderat...

We propose a new integer-linear programming model for the delete relaxation in cost-optimal planning. While a naive formulation of the delete relaxation as IP is impractical, our model incorporates landmarks and relevance-based constraints, resulting in an IP that can be used to directly solve the delete relaxation. We show that our IP model outperforms the previous state-of-the-art solver for ...

The planning of multi-service IP networks requires the consideration of many different and also diverse issues. Since Internet technology has been developed in a rather pragmatic way (“we believe in rough consensus and running code”), various approaches and concepts exist in most areas of networking, which are relevant for network planning (e.g., types of applications, routing schemes, Quality ...

Traffic demands on Internet today include delaysensitive traffic (e.g., IP telephony, e-commerce, video) that requires better than the standard ”best effort” service provided by IP networks. As a result, various new technologies and mechanisms to support all types of traffic with various performance requirements are being developed and implemented. The current methods for capacity planning of I...