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Showing 1 to 20 of 1546 for “"planners"”.
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Reactive synthesis of action planners
… of synthesis of correct-by-construction action planners has been considered in this work. Action Description Language (ADL) is used to model the actions. These ADL definitions are then translated to Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). LTL based specifications are further used for the reactive synthesis …
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Exploring constraint removal motion planners
We present algorithms for motion planning that can tolerate collisions. Because finding a path of minimum cover is prohibitively expensive, we investigate algorithms that work well in practice and find solutions close to the true minimum cover solution. We introduce the notion of removal importance …
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Web 2.0 for urban designers & planners
… can and should be used by urban designers and planners to achieve better results in public participation exercises. A brief overview of the World Wide Web is given-how and why it came to be, where it is now, and a glimpse at where it's headed. Public participation is reviewed-reasons for it, …
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A practical theory of negotiation for planners
… tool in both public and private urban planning. Planners need special knowledge for the formal roles of negotiator or mediator, and for informal roles as advocate or facilitator, in interactions with government agencies, developers, community organizations, and other special interest groups. A …
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Automated Vehicles: A Guide for Planners and Policymakers
… without direct human input. As a guide for planners and policymakers, the objective of this thesis is to develop a strong foundation for anticipating the potential impacts resulting from advancements in vehicle automation. To establish the foundation, this thesis uses a robust qualitative …
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Smart cities : concepts, perceptions and lessons for planners
… as, or striving to become "smart" cities. Planners and policy-makers espouse "smart growth". Infrastructure planning involves "smart grids" for energy, "smart networks" for information and communications technologies (ICTs) and "smart mobility" in transportation. The "smart" term has also …
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Computer-aided decision making : service allocation by transit planners
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1984.
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Playing in place : what planners can learn from play
Public participation, though an integral part of Western contemporary planning practice, is largely viewed as lacking by academics, planning practitioners, and the public at large. The obstacles to more effective planning engagement are abundant: while critique from the lenses of academics and …
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A Review and Application of Aviation Forecasting for Airport Planners
<p>Forecasting is a common method of predicting facility requirements at airports. Statistical methods used in forecasting are often simple and do not require advanced statistical analysis. However, while forecasting methodologies may be simple, the assumptions necessary for those methodologies to …
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The Geology of Cedar County, Missouri: a Guide For Planners
Cedar County is located on the northwest flank of the Ozark Uplift. The rock units have a regional dip of less than one degree to the west. This has been modified locally by three northwest-southeast trending faults, two anticlines, and two synclines. Dolomite, limestone, and sandstone of …
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Three modes of planning and the experience of professional planners
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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An examination of the role orientation of planners in Taipei
… project explores the professional ideology of planners in a new industrialized setting - Taipei,Taiwan. This study seeks to establish whether urban planners in a newly industrializing country (NIC) exhibit consistent sets of values, attitudes and role orientations that parallel those of Western …
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A study of health care reform effects on the function and philosophy of discharge planners: a proposed change in the curriculum for hospital discharge planners
… therefore changing the hospital discharge planners priorities. The activities where discharge planners spend the majority of their time were stressed the least during their collegiate preparation as rated by the discharge planners through a survey instrument. Patients are experiencing …
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Convention and Visitors Bureaus' services under review: The meeting planners' perspective
… focused on the relationship between meeting planners and Convention & Visitors Bureaus (CVBs). It assessed meeting planners' usage of CVB services and their perceptions of these services. Two self-completion questionnaires, for users and non-users of CVB services, were designed and …
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Integrated Health Planning as Viewed by Comprehensive and Mental Health Planners.
… viewpoints of comprehensive and mental health planners toward the integration of health planning. With the adoption of the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974, P.L. 93-641, it was assumed that health providers and consumers would work together to fulfill the purposes …
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Refugees as planners : Palestinian refugees in Jordan and UNRWA, 1950-1957
This research is an institutional ethnography that documents a case for planning from the middle and planning from below. It looks at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Jordan between 1950 and 1957. UNRWA started its operations in 1950 with …
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Semi-conditional planners for efficient planning under uncertainty with macro-actions
… situations far in the future. Existing planners typically construct a policy by performing fully conditional planning, where each future action is conditioned on a set of possible observations that could be obtained at every timestep. Unfortunately, fully-conditional planning can be …
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Promoting innovation in electricity distribution networks : new tools for regulators and planners
… forget" network management approach whereby grid planners accommodate these resources by expanding the capacity of the network with conventional technologies. However, the continued use of a "fit and forget" network management approach will lead to large inefficiencies compared to a network …
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