Journal articles: 'Action research and modelling'

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Walker, Beverly, and Tim Haslett. "System dynamics and action research in aged care." Australian Health Review 24, no. 1 (2001): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah010183.

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This paper documents an Action Research project undertaken to implement a Continuity of Care Model in anExtended Care Centre. System Dynamics modelling and group-modelling techniques were used to examine andimprove patient length of stay (LOS). Several indicators of success of the project are noted. They included thereduction of LOS, improvements in teamwork and staff morale, and various systemic adaptations in other parts ofthe health care sector. Upstream providers responded to the reductions in patient numbers by swamping the Centrewith intractable patients. This effectively reduced up-stream providers' LOS, and returned the Centre's LOS to pre-interventionlevels.

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Frey, C. M. "Role of Modelling in Joint Action Studies." JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 86, no. 20 (1994): 1493. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jnci/86.20.1493.

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Prescott, Tony J., Joanna J. Bryson, and Anil K. Seth. "Introduction. Modelling natural action selection." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 362, no. 1485 (2007): 1521–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.2050.

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Action selection is the task of resolving conflicts between competing behavioural alternatives. This theme issue is dedicated to advancing our understanding of the behavioural patterns and neural substrates supporting action selection in animals, including humans. The scope of problems investigated includes: (i) whether biological action selection is optimal (and, if so, what is optimized), (ii) the neural substrates for action selection in the vertebrate brain, (iii) the role of perceptual selection in decision-making, and (iv) the interaction of group and individual action selection. A second aim of this issue is to advance methodological practice with respect to modelling natural action section. A wide variety of computational modelling techniques are therefore employed ranging from formal mathematical approaches through to computational neuroscience, connectionism and agent-based modelling. The research described has broad implications for both natural and artificial sciences. One example, highlighted here, is its application to medical science where models of the neural substrates for action selection are contributing to the understanding of brain disorders such as Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

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Stepanov, M. F., and A. M. Stepanov. "Mathematical modelling of intellectual self-organizing automatic control system: action planning research." Procedia Engineering 201 (2017): 617–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.09.657.

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Gudmestad, Ove Tobias. "Modelling of Waves for the Design of Offshore Structures." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 8, no. 4 (2020): 293. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse8040293.

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For the design of structures we need to select design safety levels to ensure structures shall safely operate and not collapse. These levels are given in relevant safety standards. For these levels we need to identify the actions and ensure that we design according to recognized codes. The objective of this technical note is to shed light on the identification of the design action due to waves to ensure that the design action events be incorporated in the design phase of the structures. The approach used in this technical note is to give a description of an actual extreme event, discuss the efforts and research that was undertaken to explain the event, investigate wave conditions which possibly could have been present at the day of the event, and present a challenge and suggestion for wave tanks to ensure that design action events really are identified during wave tank experiments. We will, in particular, discuss the need for modelling of nonlinear waves to ensure that the action effects from waves are properly identified.

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Vansina, Leopold S. "Action research for change and development." European Journal of Operational Research 62, no. 2 (1992): 255–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0377-2217(92)90255-8.

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Balthu, Krishna Chaitanya, and Ben Clegg. "Improving professional service operations: action research in a law firm." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 41, no. 6 (2021): 805–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijopm-10-2020-0696.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how action research-based interventions can effect change in a complex and challenging professional service environment (Lewis and Brown, 2012). This paper presents a successful way to do this. First, by eliciting factors for change driven by deregulation in the United Kingdom’s (UK) legal service sector (Falconer, 2005). Second, by designing and implementing context-sensitive change in a selected legal service firm.Design/methodology/approachThis research adopts a participatory action research methodology involving the use of systems thinking (namely the PrOH modelling methodology) to design suitable interventions and catalyse change.FindingsThis study has generated new knowledge on three fronts–to the legal service operations, to methodology and to the intellectual framework used for abductive reasoning (Checkland and Poulter, 2006). Lessons are transferable to wider professional service operations research. Findings indicate, despite traditional challenges of delivering typical professional services, there is potential for rationalising processes and service delivery commodification, mainly in the low volume, high variety legal service typology (Silvestro et al., 1992).Research limitations/implicationsThis research uses data from an in-depth study of a single organisation.Practical implicationsThis research helped legal service professionals to improve overall efficiency and effectiveness and create new management tools.Social implicationsThis research could help improve legal service operations and make them more accessible.Originality/valueThis research applies a novel, systems thinking based methodology for the first time in a complex professional service operations environment leading to three-fold contributions in the areas of practice, theory and methodology. The paper uses a change management framework (the Change Kaleidoscope), a soft systems methodology (PrOH modelling) and applies these to legal services.

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Battista, Alexis, and Kimberly Sheridan. "Board 307 - Research Abstract Examining Learning-in Action." Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare 8, no. 6 (2013): 517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.sih.0000441559.61256.57.

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Kaminskiy, I. V., S. V. Leonov, I. S. Polikanova, S. Yu Egorov, and V. A. Klimenko. "Action and Situation Imagery Modelling: Classical Research and Emerging Perspectives in Russian Psychology." Sibirskiy Psikhologicheskiy Zhurnal, no. 76 (2020): 32–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/17267080/76/3.

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Iskandar, Iskandar. "PENINGKATAN KEMAMPUAN MENULIS DESKRIPSI DENGAN STRATEGI MODELLING." Pedagogik Journal of Islamic Elementary School 1, no. 1 (2018): 91–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.24256/pijies.v1i1.383.

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This study aims to improve the ability to write descriptions for fifth-grade students of SD Inpres Pabbangiang Gowa Regency which includes the content of ideas, content organization, grammar, diction, and spelling. This research is a classroom action research conducted in two cycles. The research subjects were students of class V in Pabbangiang Inpres Elementary School, Gowa Regency, totaling 43 students. Data collection techniques used are observation, interviews, and tests. The entire data obtained is analyzed through stages: data identification, data reduction, data presentation, and conclusions. The results showed that the results of the pre-action test in the description writing skills of fifth-grade students of Pabbangiang Inpres Elementary School in Gowa Regency which included aspects of the content of ideas, content organization, grammar, diction, and spelling were still lacking. After an action is taken through cycles I and II by applying the semantic mapping strategy in learning to write descriptions, the students' skills increase from the category of being very good. The final results of this study indicate that the application of modeling strategies can improve students' writing skills which include aspects of content ideas, content organization, grammar, diction, and spelling.

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Li, Ling Li, Zhao Gang, Han Fen Gu, and Yang Zhao. "Research on Modeling and Realization of Processing Action for Cloud Manufacturing Mode." Key Engineering Materials 486 (July 2011): 111–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.486.111.

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The modelling and realization of processing actions are investigated based on the cloud manufacturing mode. It can facilitate the manufacturing services for process engineers. According to the minimum machining cost principle and the shortest process time principle, the realization of processing actions is carried out. The architecture of the reasoning of process behaviors is constructed, and then the subsystem for supporting processing actions is developed. The auxiliary subsystem is available as an accessory of the machine tool.

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Connor, Anthony J., Radosław P. Nowak, Erica Lorenzon, et al. "An integrated approach to quantitative modelling in angiogenesis research." Journal of The Royal Society Interface 12, no. 110 (2015): 20150546. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2015.0546.

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Angiogenesis, the process by which new vessels form from existing ones, plays an important role in many developmental processes and pathological conditions. We study angiogenesis in the context of a highly controllable experimental environment: the cornea micropocket assay. Using a multidisciplinary approach that combines experiments, image processing and analysis, and mathematical modelling, we aim to provide mechanistic insight into the action of two angiogenic factors, vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF). We use image analysis techniques to extract quantitative data, which are both spatially and temporally resolved, from experimental images, and we develop a mathematical model, in which the corneal vasculature evolves in response to both VEGF-A and bFGF. The experimental data are used for model parametrization, while the mathematical model is used to assess the utility of the cornea micropocket assay and to characterize proposed synergies between VEGF-A and bFGF.

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Herrera Pérez, Carlos, María Guadalupe Sánchez-Escribano, and Ricardo Sanz. "The morphofunctional approach to emotion modelling in robotics." Adaptive Behavior 20, no. 5 (2012): 388–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1059712312451604.

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In this conceptual paper, we discuss two areas of research in robotics, robotic models of emotion and morphofunctional machines, and we explore the scope for potential cross-fertilization between them. We shift the focus in robot models of emotion from information-theoretic aspects of appraisal to the interactive significance of bodily dispositions. Typical emotional phenomena such as arousal and action readiness can be interpreted as morphofunctional processes, and their functionality may be replicated in robotic systems with morphologies that can be modulated for real-time adaptation. We investigate the control requirements for such systems, and present a possible bio-inspired architecture, based on the division of control between neural and endocrine systems in humans and animals. We suggest that emotional episodes can be understood as emergent from the coordination of action control and action-readiness, respectively. This stress on morphology complements existing research on the information-theoretic aspects of emotion.

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Haigh, Rex. "Therapeutic community research: past, present and future." Psychiatric Bulletin 26, no. 2 (2002): 65–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.26.2.65.

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This paper gives an outline of four research areas examining therapeutic community practice: an international systematic review, health economics cost-offset work, a cross-institutional multi-level modelling outcome study and a proposed action research project to deliver continuous quality improvement in all British therapeutic communities. Results of the first two have been published and are summarised here; the third is under way and the fourth is seeking funding.

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Sapateiro, Cláudio Miguel, and Rui Miguel Bernardo. "Crossing Human Factors Research and Business Intelligence." International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems 16, no. 3 (2020): 78–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijeis.2020070106.

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Starting from business intelligence (BI) reference models, this work proposes to extend the multi-dimensional data modelling approach to integrate human factors (HF)-related dimensions. The overall goal is to promote a fine grain understanding of the derived key performance indicators (KPIs) through an enhanced characterization of the operational level of work context. HF research has traditionally approached critical domains and complex socio-technical systems with a chief consideration of human situated action. Grounded on a review of the body of knowledge of the HF field, this work proposes the business intelligence for human factors (BI4HF) framework. It intends to provide guidance on pertinent data identification, collection methods, modelling, and integration within a BI project endeavour. BI4HF foundations are introduced, and a use case on a manufacturing industry organization is presented. The outcome of the enacted BI project referred in the use case allowed new analytical capabilities regarding newly derived and existing KPIs related to operational performance, providing insight into the value of the BI4HF framework.

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Kralev, Velin, Radoslava Kraleva, and Petia Koprinkova-Hristova. "Data modelling and data processing generated by human eye movements." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 11, no. 5 (2021): 4345. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v11i5.pp4345-4352.

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Data modeling and data processing are important activities in any scientific research. This research focuses on the modeling of data and processing of data generated by a saccadometer. The approach used is based on the relational data model, but the processing and storage of the data is done with client datasets. The experiments were performed with 26 randomly selected files from a total of 264 experimental sessions. The data from each experimental session was stored in three different formats, respectively text, binary and extensible markup language (XML) based. The results showed that the text format and the binary format were the most compact. Several actions related to data processing were analyzed. Based on the results obtained, it was found that the two fastest actions are respectively loading data from a binary file and storing data into a binary file. In contrast, the two slowest actions were storing the data in XML format and loading the data from a text file, respectively. Also, one of the time-consuming operations turned out to be the conversion of data from text format to binary format. Moreover, the time required to perform this action does not depend in proportion on the number of records processed.

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Chakravorty, Satya S., and Douglas N. Hales. "The evolution of manufacturing cells: An action research study." European Journal of Operational Research 188, no. 1 (2008): 153–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2007.04.017.

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Colette, A., B. Bessagnet, F. Meleux, E. Terrenoire, and L. Rouïl. "Frontiers in air quality modelling." Geoscientific Model Development 7, no. 1 (2014): 203–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-203-2014.

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Abstract. The first pan-European kilometre-scale atmospheric chemistry simulation is introduced. The continental-scale air pollution episode of January 2009 is modelled with the CHIMERE offline chemistry transport model with a massive grid of 2 million horizontal points, performed on 2000 CPU of a high-performance computing system hosted by the Research and Technology Computing Center at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CCRT/CEA). Besides the technical challenge, we find that model biases are significantly reduced, especially over urban areas. The high-resolution grid also allows revisiting of the contribution of individual city plumes to the European burden of pollution, providing new insights to target the appropriate geographical level of action when designing air pollution mitigation strategies.

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Prybutok, Victor R., and Ranga Ramasesh. "An action-research based instrument for monitoring continuous quality improvement." European Journal of Operational Research 166, no. 2 (2005): 293–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2004.02.013.

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Quinlan, Elizabeth, and Susan Robertson. "Modelling Dimensions of ‘the Social’ in Knowledge Teams: An Operationalisation of Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action." Sociological Research Online 15, no. 3 (2010): 119–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.2189.

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The introduction of knowledge teams, as a new form of work organisation, is one of many institutional transformations associated with the knowledge economy. The research on the effects of this new form of work organisation on the social processes by which knowledge workers exchange, create, and apply knowledge is limited. The research that does exist uses various communication theories to explain the social interactions within knowledge teams. We offer an alternative theoretical framework, based on Habermas’ theory of communicative action. In this paper, we operationalise the theory using dynamic agent-based modelling to perform a series of ‘virtual experiments’ on the temporal dynamics of knowledge exchange within teams. The modelling results are used to critically reflect on the theory and draw conclusions regarding the lifeworld rationalisation within knowledge teams. The paper closes by specifying areas of future work and suggesting that a practical outcome of the completed research agenda will be an evaluation tool to be used by knowledge teams to assess how effective they are at communicating and producing knowledge.

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R, Syahrul, Elfia Sukma, and Utami Dewi Pramesti*. "Pair check (pc) modelling with worksheet participants media in the training of writing class action research (PTK)." Hortatori : Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 2, no. 1 (2019): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.30998/jh.v2i1.61.

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This article describes the results and the implementation of the paircheck method with a work sheet of participants which is the result of community service with the title “Training of Scientific Writing for Teachers of SD Tawar Timur Kota Padang West Sumatra.” In the process, teachers are guided in writing classroom action research through a participant’s worksheet that contains a summary of materials and direct exercise columns with a paired check table. Participants in this training are 26 teachers from 3 public elementary schools in East Tawar area, Padang City. The method used is qualitative-descriptive that explains the final outcome and the implementation of the training. After three days of training, the participants' writing skills increased, which was proved by pre-test and post-test.

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Keramati, Abbas, Hamid Reza Golian, and Masoud Afshari Mofrad. "Improving business processes with business process modelling notation and business process execution language: an action research approach." International Journal of Business Information Systems 7, no. 4 (2011): 458. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijbis.2011.040568.

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Barsukov, Gennady V., Tatiana A. Zhuravleva, and Olga G. Kozhus. "The Research and Simulation (Modelling) of the Destruction of a Single Abrasive Particle during Waterjet Cutting." Materials Science Forum 989 (May 2020): 235–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.989.235.

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The article presents the results of experimental studies of differences in the nature of impact destruction of single garnet grains penetrating the target material, and presents the results of numerical simulation (modeling) of the contact interaction of an abrasive particle with a flat obstacle, which allowed determining the volume ablation of the material under the action of a single abrasive particle, and makes it possible to predict the performance of waterjet cutting.

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Candela, Leonardo, Valerio Grossi, Paolo Manghi, and Roberto Trasarti. "A workflow language for research e-infrastructures." International Journal of Data Science and Analytics 11, no. 4 (2021): 361–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41060-020-00237-x.

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AbstractResearch e-infrastructures are “systems of systems,” patchworks of resources such as tools and services, which change over time to address the evolving needs of the scientific process. In such environments, researchers carry out their scientific process in terms of sequences of actions that mainly include invocation of web services, user interaction with web applications, user download and use of shared software libraries/tools. The resulting workflows are intended to generate new research products (articles, datasets, methods, etc.) out of existing ones. Sharing a digital and executable representation of such workflows with other scientists would enforce Open Science publishing principles of “reproducibility of science” and “transparent assessment of science.” This work presents HyWare, a language and execution platform capable of representing scientific processes in highly heterogeneous research e-infrastructures in terms of so-called hybrid workflows. Hybrid workflows can express sequences of “manually executable actions,” i.e., formal descriptions guiding users to repeat a reasoning, protocol or manual procedure, and “machine-executable actions,” i.e., encoding of the automated execution of one (or more) web services. An HyWare execution platform enables scientists to (i) create and share workflows out of a given action set (as defined by the users to match e-infrastructure needs) and (ii) execute hybrid workflows making sure input/output of the actions flow properly across manual and automated actions. The HyWare language and platform can be implemented as an extension of well-known workflow languages and platforms.

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Eden, Colin, and Fran Ackermann. "Theory into practice, practice to theory: Action research in method development." European Journal of Operational Research 271, no. 3 (2018): 1145–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.05.061.

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Vidal, R. V. V. "Community works - 26 case studies showing community Operational Research in action." European Journal of Operational Research 94, no. 2 (1996): 422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0377-2217(96)82393-9.

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Kojouharov, Hristo V. "COVID-19 Research Communications (Editorial)." BIOMATH 9, no. 1 (2020): 2005047. http://dx.doi.org/10.11145/j.biomath.2020.05.047.

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The goal of the series is to provide a platform for rapid communication and exchange of ideas concerning the COVID-19 epidemic. It is new and unlike the known virus-induced diseases. There is a significant research effort, including mathematical modelling, to understand the characteristics of the virus SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) and the epidemiological dynamics of COVID-19, the disease caused by it. Due to their novelty, the research is often likely to produce results only on specific aspects of the disease, provide just partial answers to research questions, or collect evidence for formulating hypothesis yet to be tested. We believe, however, that the significance of the pandemic for the human population makes it essential to share even such partial results as soon as they are available to facilitate the advancement of the research on this disease. While eventually, a more comprehensive picture of both the virus and the disease will emerge, even incomplete but timely and scientifically-based information will help the authorities to make sound decisions on the course of action during the epidemic. For the series, we invite publications on any aspect of the COVID-19 epidemic. Specifically, the series aims to cover • the biological research, providing an understanding of the relevant structures and causal relationships in the epidemiological environment, which can facilitate mathematical or statistical modelling, • mathematical models of the structures, causal interactions and epidemiological data, and their analysis, • mathematical models and analysis of the socio-economic aspects of the pandemic, • any new mathematical methods, applicable to the study of any of the mentioned topics. All submissions to the series will be prioritised for a fast peer-review.

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Yeasmin, Nafisa, and Riitta Kemppainen-Koivisto. "The Sociopolitical Determinants of Social Entrepreneurship Action: A Qualitative Analysis." South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases 6, no. 1 (2017): 47–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2277977917698297.

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Jobseekers, considered as long-term unemployed in Lapland, are under the risk of social exclusion. This group of people is lacking ways for identifying the advantages of relevant networking opportunities in the society with respect to access to the labour market. In particular, this article explores the opportunities for facilitating and enhancing public services in customers’ demands and promoting employment services during the transition of the target group via establishing social enterprise (SE)/cooperatives (coops). The research focuses on the concept of coproduction and network theory for supporting social innovation in the Arctic city. The objective of this explorative research is to analyze the combine recourses of coproduction and network modelling for achieving the necessary sociopolitical determinants for SE/coop to function as an alternative instrument for employment in Lapland. This research article suggests a sustainable social network model for identifying collective social beliefs and values for hindering long-term unemployment by operating SE/coops successfully in the sparsely populated Arctic region.

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Anggraini, Ika Yunida, Sucipto Sucipto, and Rini Indriati. "Cyberbullying Detection Modelling at Twitter Social Networking." JUITA : Jurnal Informatika 6, no. 2 (2018): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.30595/juita.v6i2.3350.

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Cybercrimes often happened in social networking sites. Cyber-bullying is a form of cybercrime that recently trended in one of popular social networking sites, Twitter. The practice of cyber-bullying on teenager can cause depression, murderer or suicidal thoughts and it needs a preventing action so it will not harmful to the victim. To prevent cyber-bullying a text mining modelling can be done to classify tweets on Twitter into two classes, bullying class and not bullying class. On this research we use Naïve Bayes Classifier with five stages of pre-processing : replace tokens, transform case, tokenization, filter stopwords and n-grams. The validation process on this research used 10-Fold Cross Validation. To evaluate the performance of the model a Confusion Matrix table is used. The model on 10-Fold Cross Validation phase works well with 77,88% of precision , 94,75% of recall and 82,50% of accuracy with +/-5,12% of standard deviation.

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Ongstad, Sigmund Vik. "Genre Constituents in “Reflections on Genre as Social Action” – in the Light of 1980s’ Genre Research?" Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie 31 (May 12, 2021): 86–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.31468/dwr.857.

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Abstract The article comments upon a special issue on genre in cjsdw, focusing what may be key components or constituents of genre as a general concept. The search for key aspects in these texts are seen in the light of descriptions of genre from the 1980s by Frow (1980), Miller (1984), Bakhtin (1986), and Freadman (1987). Three issues are covered, aspects, levels, and processes, and in addition the challenge of applying concepts coined in a (sub-)field when discussing genre as an overarching, interdisciplinary, semiotic concept. The inquiry leads up to five constitutive aspects, form, content, act, time, and space. It is argued that this set defines the levels utterance and genre. Different processes are discussed. The article ends modelling aspects, levels, and processes in a basic conceptual framework.

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Krishnappan, Bommanna G. "Recent advances in basic and applied research in cohesive sediment transport in aquatic systems." Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering 34, no. 6 (2007): 731–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/l06-043.

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An overview of cohesive sediment transport processes is given in this paper, and a mass-balance equation that is commonly used to treat cohesive sediment transport is reviewed. The equation highlights transport parameters and processes that are important for modelling the transport of cohesive sediment. The flocculation mechanism that distinguishes cohesive sediment from its noncohesive counterpart is elaborated using a laboratory study that was carried out in a rotating circular flume using sediments from Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada. A mathematical model of flocculation suitable for predicting flocculation of sediment in rotating circular flumes is reviewed. Other cohesive sediment transport processes such as erosion and deposition processes at the sediment-water interface, entrapment of fines in gravel beds, consolidation, fluid mud, and fluidization due to wave action are reviewed. Additional challenges and knowledge gaps that exist in the area of cohesive sediment transport are identified. Key words: cohesive sediment, flocculation, mathematical modelling of flocculation, rotating circular flume, erosion, deposition, fine sediment entrapment, fluid mud, consolidation, fluidization, waves.

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Andreswari, R., and I. Syahputra. "Classroom action research using student team achievement division approach case study: business process modelling course on bpmn subtopics." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1193 (April 2019): 012003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1193/1/012003.

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Stanimirovic, Dalibor, and Mirko Vintar. "Modelling IT Outsourcing Process." International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development 4, no. 1 (2012): 62–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jicthd.2012010105.

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Slovenian government has adopted the utilization of outsourcing as one of the main instruments to tackle national/municipal budget deficit and stimulate cost effectiveness of the public sector. While lacking experience as well as formal regulations and expertise in the field of outsourcing, public sector started straying to the growing and increasingly less justified outsourcing of public services, leading to a completely opposite effect than expected and desired. Being aware of the complex and almost unparalleled role of information technology (IT) in the modern organization, IT sourcing issues could define the main trajectory of public sector action in the future as well as articulate its development strategy and long-term goals of e-government in general. This paper focuses on in-depth analysis of the critical success factors of public sector outsourcing, while employing the international studies and primarily the results of the research from 2010, concerning outsourcing of IT-projects in Slovenian municipalities. This paper provides additional analysis of the material, procedural and other relevant aspects within the process of IT outsourcing, an overview of its potential implications and eventually presents a contextual framework and a set of applicable guidelines for quality management of IT outsourcing process and effective implementation of e-government projects in the public sector.

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Kim, Jiyoung, and Sejin Ha. "Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility and Performative Actions on Retailer Legitimacy and Consumer Loyalty." International Journal of Marketing Studies 12, no. 3 (2020): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijms.v12n3p41.

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The purpose of this research is to propose and empirically test a research framework that illustrates how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and performative action influence consumer&rsquo;s perception of organizational legitimacy and loyalty intention, based on institutional theory. Further, we examine the interaction effect of CSR and performative action on organizational legitimacy, where we propose that the effect of CSR on legitimacy becomes amplified when performative action is high. To test the hypotheses, a total of 222 usable data were collected from consumers residing in a metropolitan area. Hypotheses were tested using Moderated Structural Equation Modelling. The study result reveals that both CSR and performative action are critical in establishing organizational legitimacy. Further, the result shows that the interaction coefficient for the interaction is significant that the relationship between CSR performance and legitimacy intensifies when performative action is high. The research outcome provides valuable implications to practitioners that legitimacy from the institutional environment and loyalty from the economic environment has to exist as separate domains for business to survive.

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IVANCEVIC, VLADIMIR G., EUGENE V. AIDMAN, and LEONG YEN. "EXTENDING FEYNMAN'S FORMALISMS FOR MODELING HUMAN JOINT ACTION COORDINATION." International Journal of Biomathematics 02, no. 01 (2009): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1793524509000509.

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The recently developed Life-Space-Foam approach to goal-directed human action deals with individual actor dynamics. This paper applies the model to characterize the dynamics of co-action by two or more actors. This dynamics is modelled by (i) a two-term joint action (including cognitive/motivatonal potential and kinetic energy), and (ii) its associated adaptive path integral, representing an infinite-dimensional neural network. Its feedback adaptation loop has been derived from Bernstein's concepts of sensory corrections loop in human motor control and Brooks' subsumption architectures in robotics. Potential applications of the proposed model in human-robot interaction research are discussed.

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Bonin, Muriel, Pascal thinon, Patrick Caron, Jean-Paul Cheylan, and Yves Clouet. "Territoire, zonage et modélisation graphique : recherche-action et apprentissage / Territory, zoning and graph modelling : concerted applied research and training." Géocarrefour 76, no. 3 (2001): 241–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/geoca.2001.2562.

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Wamonje, Francis O. "Post-COVID-19 Action: Guarding Africa’s Crops against Viral Epidemics Requires Research Capacity Building That Unifies a Trio of Transdisciplinary Interventions." Viruses 12, no. 11 (2020): 1276. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v12111276.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that understanding the genomics of a virus, diagnostics and breaking virus transmission is essential in managing viral pandemics. The same lessons can apply for plant viruses. There are plant viruses that have severely disrupted crop production in multiple countries, as recently seen with maize lethal necrosis disease in eastern and southern Africa. High-throughput sequencing (HTS) is needed to detect new viral threats. Equally important is building local capacity to develop the tools required for rapid diagnosis of plant viruses. Most plant viruses are insect-vectored, hence, biological insights on virus transmission are vital in modelling disease spread. Research in Africa in these three areas is in its infancy and disjointed. Despite intense interest, uptake of HTS by African researchers is hampered by infrastructural gaps. The use of whole-genome information to develop field-deployable diagnostics on the continent is virtually inexistent. There is fledgling research into plant-virus-vector interactions to inform modelling of viral transmission. The gains so far have been modest but encouraging, and therefore must be consolidated. For this, I propose the creation of a new Research Centre for Africa. This bold investment is needed to secure the future of Africa’s crops from insect-vectored viral diseases.

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Dehdarirad, Tahereh, and Kalle Karlsson. "News media attention in Climate Action: latent topics and open access." Scientometrics 126, no. 9 (2021): 8109–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04095-7.

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AbstractIn this study we investigated whether open access could assist the broader dissemination of scientific research in Climate Action (Sustainable Development Goal 13) via news outlets. We did this by comparing (i) the share of open and non-open access documents in different Climate Action topics, and their news counts, and (ii) the mean of news counts for open access and non-open access documents. The data set of this study comprised 70,206 articles and reviews in Sustainable Development Goal 13, published during 2014–2018, retrieved from SciVal. The number of news mentions for each document was obtained from Altmetrics Details Page API using their DOIs, whereas the open access statuses were obtained using Unpaywall.org. The analysis in this paper was done using a combination of (Latent Dirichlet allocation) topic modelling, descriptive statistics, and regression analysis. The covariates included in the regression analysis were features related to authors, country, journal, institution, funding, readability, news source category and topic. Using topic modelling, we identified 10 topics, with topics 4 (meteorology) [21%], 5 (adaption, mitigation, and legislation) [18%] and 8 (ecosystems and biodiversity) [14%] accounting for 53% of the research in Sustainable Development Goal 13. Additionally, the results of regression analysis showed that while keeping all the variables constant in the model, open access papers in Climate Action had a news count advantage (8.8%) in comparison to non-open access papers. Our findings also showed that while a higher share of open access documents in topics such as topic 9 (Human vulnerability to risks) might not assist with its broader dissemination, in some others such as topic 5 (adaption, mitigation, and legislation), even a lower share of open access documents might accelerate its broad communication via news outlets.

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Franz, Guilherme, Matthias T. Delpey, David Brito, Lígia Pinto, Paulo Leitão, and Ramiro Neves. "Modelling of sediment transport and morphological evolution under the combined action of waves and currents." Ocean Science 13, no. 5 (2017): 673–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/os-13-673-2017.

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Abstract. Coastal defence structures are often constructed to prevent beach erosion. However, poorly designed structures may cause serious erosion problems in the downdrift direction. Morphological models are useful tools to predict such impacts and assess the efficiency of defence structures for different scenarios. Nevertheless, morphological modelling is still a topic under intense research effort. The processes simulated by a morphological model depend on model complexity. For instance, undertow currents are neglected in coastal area models (2DH), which is a limitation for simulating the evolution of beach profiles for long periods. Model limitations are generally overcome by predefining invariant equilibrium profiles that are allowed to shift offshore or onshore. A more flexible approach is described in this paper, which can be generalised to 3-D models. The present work is based on the coupling of the MOHID modelling system and the SWAN wave model. The impacts of different designs of detached breakwaters and groynes were simulated in a schematic beach configuration following a 2DH approach. The results of bathymetry evolution are in agreement with the patterns found in the literature for several existing structures. The model was also tested in a 3-D test case to simulate the formation of sandbars by undertow currents. The findings of this work confirmed the applicability of the MOHID modelling system to study sediment transport and morphological changes in coastal zones under the combined action of waves and currents. The same modelling methodology was applied to a coastal zone (Costa da Caparica) located at the mouth of a mesotidal estuary (Tagus Estuary, Portugal) to evaluate the hydrodynamics and sediment transport both in calm water conditions and during events of highly energetic waves. The MOHID code is available in the GitHub repository.

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Rojo, Marcial García, Christel Daniel, and Thomas Schrader. "Standardization Efforts of Digital Pathology in Europe." Analytical Cellular Pathology 35, no. 1 (2012): 19–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/858573.

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Background: EURO-TELEPATH is a European COST Action IC0604. It started in 2007 and will end in November 2011. Its main objectives are evaluating and validating the common technological framework and communication standards required to access, transmit, and manage digital medical records by pathologists and other medical specialties in a networked environment.Business Modelling: Working Group 1, “Business Modelling in Pathology,” has designed main pathology processes – Frozen Study, Formalin Fixed Specimen Study, Telepathology, Cytology, and Autopsy – using Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN).Informatics Standards in Pathology: Working Group 2 has been dedicated to promoting the application of informatics standards in pathology, collaborating with Integrating Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM), Health Level Seven (HL7), and other standardization bodies.Conclusion: Health terminology standardization research has become a topic of great interest. Future research work should focus on standardizing automatic image analysis and tissue microarrays imaging.

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Forsythe, Lydia. "Action Research, Simulation, Team Communication, and Bringing the Tacit Into Voice Society for Simulation in Healthcare." Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare 4, no. 3 (2009): 143–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/sih.0b013e3181986814.

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Anton, N., R. M. Botez, and D. Popescu. "Application of the weight function method on a high incidence research aircraft model." Aeronautical Journal 117, no. 1195 (2013): 897–912. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001924000008575.

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Abstract This paper assesses the application of a new method for system stability analysis, the weight functions method, to the longitudinal and lateral motions of a High Incidence Research Aircraft Model. The method consists of finding the number of weight functions that is equal to the number of differential equations required for system modelling. The aircraft’s stability is determined from the sign of the total weight function; which should be negative for a stable model. The Aero-Data Model In Research Environment (ADMIRE) simulation, developed by the Swedish Defence Research Agency, was used for the aerodynamic aircraft modelling, with the following configurations: Mach number = 0·25, altitude = 500m, angle-of-attack [–10 to 30]°, elevon deflection angle [–30 to 30]°, canard deflection [0° and 25°] and rudder deflection angles [–30° and 30°]. These flight configurations were selected because they are among the flight conditions for Cat. II Pilot Induced Oscillation (PIO) criteria validation, performed on the FOI aircraft model presented in the PIO Handbook by the Group for Aeronautical Research and Technology in Europe, Flight Mechanics/Action Group 12. This aircraft model has a known instability for longitudinal and lateral motions and so a control law was introduced to stabilise its flight.

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GOLDMAN, ROBERT P., and CHITTA BARAL. "Robots, softbots, immobots: The 1997 AAAI Workshop on Theories of Action, Planning and Control." Knowledge Engineering Review 13, no. 2 (1998): 179–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269888998001052.

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This workshop brought together researchers concerned with fundamental issues of modelling action, those developing automated planning techniques and those attempting to implement autonomous agents acting in the world. In the past, these research communities have been separate from each other to a surprising extent. Researchers interested in theories of action have busied themselves with finding solutions to the frame and ramification problems, for very expressive theories of action. On the other hand, researchers interested in developing planning systems have typically concentrated on efficiency over expressiveness and assumed away the frame and ramification problems by means of the “STRIPS assumption”. Finally, researchers interested in implementing autonomous agents have found their attention occupied by issues of execution monitoring and sensing.

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Stinner, Björn, and Till Bretschneider. "Mathematical modelling in cell migration: tackling biochemistry in changing geometries." Biochemical Society Transactions 48, no. 2 (2020): 419–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bst20190311.

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Directed cell migration poses a rich set of theoretical challenges. Broadly, these are concerned with (1) how cells sense external signal gradients and adapt; (2) how actin polymerisation is localised to drive the leading cell edge and Myosin-II molecular motors retract the cell rear; and (3) how the combined action of cellular forces and cell adhesion results in cell shape changes and net migration. Reaction–diffusion models for biological pattern formation going back to Turing have long been used to explain generic principles of gradient sensing and cell polarisation in simple, static geometries like a circle. In this minireview, we focus on recent research which aims at coupling the biochemistry with cellular mechanics and modelling cell shape changes. In particular, we want to contrast two principal modelling approaches: (1) interface tracking where the cell membrane, interfacing cell interior and exterior, is explicitly represented by a set of moving points in 2D or 3D space and (2) interface capturing. In interface capturing, the membrane is implicitly modelled analogously to a level line in a hilly landscape whose topology changes according to forces acting on the membrane. With the increased availability of high-quality 3D microscopy data of complex cell shapes, such methods will become increasingly important in data-driven, image-based modelling to better understand the mechanochemistry underpinning cell motion.

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Creemers, Mireille. "Soft systems methodology in action." European Journal of Operational Research 50, no. 1 (1991): 101–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0377-2217(91)90052-w.

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Moewaka Barnes, Helen, Garth Harmsworth, Gail Tipa, Wendy Henwood, and Tim McCreanor. "Indigenous-led environmental research in Aotearoa New Zealand: beyond a transdisciplinary model for best practice, empowerment and action." AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 17, no. 2 (2021): 306–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11771801211019397.

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Complex multidimensional challenges have prompted a transformational shift towards holistic research integration with knowledge systems differing from conventional science. Embracing diverse ontological and epistemological approaches through new styles of collaboration, dialogue and practice enables durable solutions and desired outcomes. As societal and global issues become more urgent, complex and challenging, recognition of the intersection of the environment with economic, social, cultural and political dynamics means transdisciplinary approaches are advancing. Integrative, collaborative methodologies are central to indigenous-led research, providing insights for Western science. We describe characteristics of transdisciplinary research from the international literature and explore related kaupapa Māori (Māori theory and practice) approaches. Location-specific, indigenous-led environmental case studies from Aotearoa New Zealand show how they are transcendent of the transdisciplinary approaches they encompass. We demonstrate research beyond transdisciplinarity, modelling engagement, power sharing and collective action through integrative, collaborative endeavours across knowledge systems and praxis, stretching the development of transdisciplinary research everywhere.

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Paoletti, E., and J.-P. Tuovinen. "COST Action FP0903: “Research, monitoring and modelling in the study of climate change and air pollution impacts on forest ecosystems”." iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry 4, no. 4 (2011): 160–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3832/ifor0583-004.

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Schermer, Markus, Rike Stotten, Ulrich Strasser, et al. "The Role of Transdisciplinary Research for Agricultural Climate Change Adaptation Strategies." Agronomy 8, no. 11 (2018): 237. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy8110237.

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While science widely acknowledges the necessity of climate change adaptation (CCA), concrete strategies for CCA by major land-use actor groups at a local level are largely missing. Immediate economic challenges often prevent the establishment of long-term collective strategies. However, collective decisions on a communal level regarding land use are crucial for CCA strategies, given the interdependencies of farming with forestry, tourism, and other economic sectors, especially in mountain areas. This paper presents inter- and trans-disciplinary learning processes, which have evolved into a project modelling the hydrological effects of combined future climate and land-use changes based on the combined scenarios of climate and socio-economic change in an Alpine valley (Brixental in Tyrol/Austria). Locally adapted scenarios illustrate future land-use changes as a result of both climate change and different socio-economic developments. The hydrological results show how an increase in the forested area reduces streamflow (as a measure of water availability) in the long term. For local stakeholders, the process demonstrated clearly the interdependence of different economic sectors and the necessity for collective action at a regional level to influence socio-economic development. Moreover, it made them aware that local decisions on future land use may influence the effects of climate change. Consistent storylines helped stakeholders to visualize a desired future and to see their scope of influence. The transdisciplinary research process allowed local stakeholders to translate the hydrological modelling results into a concrete local CCA strategy.

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Fox, M., and D. Long. "Modelling Mixed Discrete-Continuous Domains for Planning." Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 27 (October 31, 2006): 235–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1613/jair.2044.

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In this paper we present pddl+, a planning domain description language for modelling mixed discrete-continuous planning domains. We describe the syntax and modelling style of pddl+, showing that the language makes convenient the modelling of complex time-dependent effects. We provide a formal semantics for pddl+ by mapping planning instances into constructs of hybrid automata. Using the syntax of HAs as our semantic model we construct a semantic mapping to labelled transition systems to complete the formal interpretation of pddl+ planning instances. An advantage of building a mapping from pddl+ to HA theory is that it forms a bridge between the Planning and Real Time Systems research communities. One consequence is that we can expect to make use of some of the theoretical properties of HAs. For example, for a restricted class of HAs the Reachability problem (which is equivalent to Plan Existence) is decidable. pddl+ provides an alternative to the continuous durative action model of pddl2.1, adding a more flexible and robust model of time-dependent behaviour.

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Przywarty, Marcin, Renata Boć, Tanja Brcko, and Marko Perkovič. "Factors Influencing the Action Point of the Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre." Applied Sciences 11, no. 16 (2021): 7299. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11167299.

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Perhaps the most problematic issue regarding navigation safety management is the unknown, or unknowable, is the navigator’s decision made in the face of a dangerous situation. This applies particularly to collision-avoidance. The aim of the article is to identify factors that influence the moment of decision during a collision-avoidance manoeuvre and to define theoretical distributions that can be used during modelling of a navigator’s behaviour. The applicable research was divided into two stages. In the first, the distance between ships and the time to closest point of approach (TCPA) were analysed. In the second, the influence of the size of the target ships and relative speed were investigated. The advantage of the paper is its use of actual observations collected in real situations. The proposed approach allows for a better understanding of the navigator’s actual decision-making, which will be instructive in measures taken to improve navigational safety.

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