Planning for Real Time Event Response Management
Author: David W J Ash
- Real-time intelligent agents: solutions and applications
- Choosing and integrating the best planning techniques
- Reaction decision frameworks and language frameworks
- Includes a complete case study
The act of planning for and responding to real-time events has been an area of intense investigation in the past few years. Planning for Real Time Event Response Management offers this state-of-the-art technology in depth and demonstrates how it can be employed for maximum effect. The techniques presented here are applicable to an exceptionally broad range of problems, from web-based shopping assistants to robots, medicine to financial analysis. Coverage includes:
- Conventional and reactive planning: when to use each, and when to avoid planning
- A flight planning example used throughout the book to bring together the concepts
- Key reactive planning techniques such as Brooks' subsumption architecture and Rosenschein/Kaelbling's situated automata—and their limitations
- Contingencies: building intelligent agents that can handle unanticipated events
- Applying planning paradigms to real-world domains
- Building Reaction Decision Frameworks that integrate conventional and reactive planning
- Solving problems at execution time: anytime algorithms and real-time architectures
- Real-time planning: integrating artificial intelligence and real-time computing
Planning for Real Time Event Response Management introduces a framework for describing reactive behavior that can be used in many knowledge domains, concluding with a previewof the next steps to be taken in intelligent agent development, including integration of real-time problem solving languages with existing Internet infrastructures.
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Why Global Commitment Really Matters!
Author: J David David Richardson
For both soaring Silicon Valley and slumping Central New York, and for firms both large and small, global integration usually has a very positive impact. In this study, Howard Lewis and J. David Richardson explore new gains from deep international integration, some of which were featured in two earlier Institute studies of the under-appreciated benefits of deep export dependence (*). Why Global Integration Matters Most! updates the export studies and explores the evidence for a more radical idea.
A growing body of research literature demonstrates that globally engaged firms and their workers enjoy numerous performance benefits over local counterparts that are identical with respect to size, industry, and location. Conscious decisions to export, import, invest abroad, or partner with foreign investors or technology seem to be a catalyst for added benefits, especially rapid and stable job growth. Over time, globally engaged firms rejuvenate whole industries as their market share rises and that of more insular firms shrinks. Any, many, or all types of global commitments reward firms, workers, and local communities.
The study supplements its research survey with real-life profiles of representative American exporters, importers (often businesses importing machines and components), investors abroad, foreign affiliates, and technology partners. It also weighs criticisms and alternative interpretations of the research, and discusses the problems of those left on the margins of global engagement.
Table of Contents:
| Preface | vii |
| Acknowledgments | xi |
| Summary | 1 |
| Overview | 3 |
| 1 Introduction | 7 |
| 2 The Globally Engaged Stand Tall: Firms, Workers, | |
| Communities | 13 |
| Globally Engaged Firms Versus Other Firms | 16 |
| Globally Engaged Workers Versus Other Workers | 24 |
| Globally Engaged Firms, Workers, and Communities Abroad | 35 |
| 3 Yes, But Does Globalization Really Cause Any of This Stuff? | 39 |
| Commitment, Not Intensity | 40 |
| The Chicken and the Egg | 41 |
| Global Commitments Are a Family of Activities | 45 |
| Even if Global Presence Meekly Mirrored Local | |
| Performance, There May Be Gains | 47 |
| 4 But What About ...? Complaints, Doubts, and Criticism | 51 |
| 5 Policy Implications | 61 |
| References | 63 |
| Index | 67 |
| Tables | |
| Table 3.1 Background data for Figures 3.4-3. | 6—Wages |
| and employment shares of globally integrated and less | 48 |
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