What Automated Planning Can Do for Business Process Management

Business Process Management (BPM) is a central element of today organizations. Despite over the years its main focus has been the support of processes in highly controlled domains, nowadays many domains of interest to the BPM community are characterized by ever-changing requirements, unpredictable environments and increasing amounts of data that influence the execution of process instances. Under such dynamic conditions, BPM systems must increase their level of automation to provide the reactivity and flexibility necessary for process management. On the other hand, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community has concentrated its efforts on investigating dynamic domains that involve active control of computational entities and physical devices (e.g., robots, software agents, etc.). In this context, Automated Planning, which is one of the oldest areas in AI, is conceived as a model-based approach to synthesize autonomous behaviours in automated way from a model. In this paper, we discuss how automated planning techniques can be leveraged to enable new levels of automation and support for business processing, and we show some concrete examples of their successful application to the different stages of the BPM life cycle

Building Capacity in Your Library for Research Data Management Support (Or What We Learned From Offering to Review DMPs)

In our evolving effort to build infrastructure and support around research data management needs, we found traction in launching a data management plan review service. In doing so, we have been able to achieve multiple goals: 1) support the research process; 2) create active learning situations for subject liaisons to engage in and learn how to support data management planning; 3) find resonance with campus‐sponsored research officers; 4) collaborate with other campus research support groups including campus IT, the institutional review board, and statistical consulting; 5) and participate in the national dialogue about the tensions of data management

PENDEKATAN PARTISIPATIF DALAM PENGELOLAAN DANA DESA DI WILAYAH KECAMATAN BAMBAIRA KABUPATEN PASANGKAYU

This research aims to find out how the participative Approach of village fund management in Bambaira village district. The research used a descriptive qualitative type. The data used were primary and secondary data. The data were gathered using observation, interview and documentation. The data analysis used was from Miles and Huberman model consistingof data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusion. The theory used Ericson theory coverting three aspects, namely: participastion in planning, participation in implementation, and participation in managing village fund in Bambaira district find many problems if it is seen from the stage of planning, that very dominant or more active during village fund management discussion is the village officials, the members of village consultative board and public figures considered have influential. Meanwhile most of the villagers do not really active in playing role on the planning stage because they did not get the invitation to the discussion, so the making decision time does not represent the aspiration of the villagers in general. Furtheremore, the villagers have lack awarenessof the development of the village. This indication is seen on the policy implementation of the village fund management, begin from the planning process to the final implementation which almost done by the village government only. Village communities who should act as a determinant of village development tend to be only spectators in every development in the village. In addition, there is still a low awareness of the village community to maintain the existing infrastructure, due to a lack of public understanding of the importance of maintaining development infrastructure/program. Based on the description above, it can be concluded that community participation in village fund management is still very low and far from what was expected

ICT Road map for supporting energy systems in smart cities

This paper introduces a road map for ICTs (Information and communication technologies) supporting planning, operation and management of energy systems in smart cities. The road map summarises different elements that form energy systems in cities and proposes research and technical development (RTD) and innovation activities for the development and innovation of ICTs for holistic design, planning and operation of energy systems. In addition, synergies with other ICT systems for smart cities are considered. There are four main target groups for the road map: 1) citizen; 2) building sector; 3) energy sector; and 4) municipality level. As an example for enabling active participation of citizens, the road map proposes how ICT can enable citizens? involvement among others into building design. The building sector roadmap proposes how ICTs can support the planning of buildings and renovations in the future, as well as how to manage building energy systems. The energy sector road map focuses on city?s energy systems and their planning and management, including e.g. demand side management, management of different district level energy systems, energy performance validation and management, energy data models, and smarter use of open energy data. Moreover, the municipality level road map proposes among others ICTs for better integration of city systems and city planning enabling maximised energy efficiency. In addition, one road map section suggests development needs related to open energy data, including among others the use of energy data and the development and harmonisation of energy data models. The road map has been assembled in the READY4SmartCities project (funded by EU 7th Framework Programme), which focuses on the energy system at the city level, consisting of centralised energy systems and connections to the national level energy grids, as well as interconnections to the neighbourhood and building level energy systems

SPATIAL ECOLOGY AND HABITAT USE OF THE WESTERN MASSASAUGA (SISTRURUS TERGEMINUS) IN NEBRASKA

We used radiotelemetry during 2004 and 2005 to investigate seasonal movements and habitat use and to improve our understanding of how land management practices were affecting Western Massasauga (Sistrurus tergeminus) populations in Nebraska. We found Western Massasaugas to brumate in crayfish burrows 100% of the time, and spring emergence occurred during March - April. The longest movements occurred during May when snakes were moving away from brumation sites to summer habitat, after which movements decreased until a second peak in August. We did not find significant differences between male and female activity area, range length, total distance moved, daily movement, or distance from spring and fall brumation sites. However the core activity range of females was significantly less than that of males. During the active season, grassland habitat was used 75.6% of the time compared to habitats of grassland-shrubs (10.7%), hydrophilic vegetation (9.1%), woodlands (3.1%), and shrublands (1.5%). Identifying variations in a species spatial ecology is important for achieving long-term conservation goals because life history events, resource availability, and land management practices may have an effect on seasonal movements and habitat use. The results of our study demonstrate the need for, and some of the necessary data for, improved land management planning in order to meet conservation needs of the Western Massasauga in Nebraska

PENGELOLAAN DANA DESA (DD) DALAM RANGKA PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT DI DESA PALINTUMA KECAMATAN PINEMBANI KABUAPTEN DONGGALA

This research aims to know how to fund Management village (DD) in the framework of community empowerment in Palintuma village in Pinembani District district of Donggala This research uses a qualitative method of descriptive. Data obtained from interviews with the sub-district, village government. Village Institution and village community (primary data source) and from observation, documentation, and data from Palintuma Village (secondary data source). Data collection techniques are conducted with observations and interviews. The sampling technique used is purposive sampling. Data validity using triangulation techniques. The form of data analysis used is an interactive analysis model of Miles and Huberman, which includes data collection, data reduction, data presentation and withdrawal of conclusions  From the results of the study showed that: 1) Community empowerment in the planning phase is still very low this is due to the still lack of community involved in the decision-making in the planning of development programs, 2) Community Empowerment has not been involved in the management team of development activities formed in the village, the community in this case is still involved in the form of approving and as a witness in the formation of the team. 3) Community Empowerment in the implementation of activities has been active this can be seen from community involvement in the implementation of development activities and the impact that produced from the development for the basic social services has been Fulfilled, 4) in the supervision phase of village Funds management has been active, at the time of planning, organizing, implementation and supervision itself, but the society in this stage is still in the consultation stage, so it is necessary to give the understanding Continuyu to the public about the importance of engaging in all stages of Village development program

MANAJEMEN PEMBELAJARAN AKTIF BERBASIS KARAKTER

This research is to get factual data about the planning, implementation, supervision, and some problems of character-based active learning management at independent curriculum 2013 junior high schools in Depok. This research uses descriptive method. The result showed that character-based active learning management consists of learning planning, implementation, and supervisions which derived from unique school values.