* Path planning: Determining an optimal path for vehicle to go while meeting certain objectives and mission constraints, such as obstacles or fuel requirements

* Trajectory Generation ( sometimes called Motion planning ): Determining an optimal control maneuver to take to follow a given path or to go from one location to another

* Task Allocation and Scheduling: Determining the optimal distribution of tasks amongst a group of agents, with time and equipment constraints

* Determining the optimal age for gonadectomy of dogs and cats ( pdf )

Determining a precise value for a particular knot is difficult because many factors can affect a knot efficiency test: the type of fiber, the style of rope, the size of rope, whether it is wet or dry, how the knot is dressed before loading, how rapidly it is loaded, whether the knot is repeatedly loaded, and so on.

Determining if the culture leans more toward individualism or collectivism would allow the coach to determine the type of feedback necessary for motivation.

Determining whether the principal is " disabled " enough to initiate this type of representation is a formal process.

Determining the type of rock being drilled at any one time is a matter of knowing the ' lag time ' between a chip being cut by the bit and the time it reaches the surface where it is then examined by the wellsite geologist ( or mudlogger as they are sometimes called ).

; Interpretation: Determining if an indication is of a type to be investigated.

Determining the size, type and location of habitat to conserve is a complex area of conservation biology.

* Determining the appropriate metadata needed for each object type and how it is associated with the objects.

Determining the class of water damage is an important first step, and will determine the amount and type of equipment utilized to dry-down the structure:.

Determining the composition of the Memorial depends on the dates of Nehemiah's mission: It is commonly accepted that " Artaxerxes " was Artaxerxes I ( there were two later kings of the same name ), and that Nehemiah's first period in Jerusalem was therefore 445-433 BC ; allowing for his return to Susa and second journey to Jerusalem, the end of the 5th century BC is therefore the earliest possible date for the Memorial.

Determining the satisfiability of a formula in conjunctive normal form where each clause is limited to at most three literals is NP-complete ; this problem is called " 3SAT ", " 3CNFSAT ", or " 3-satisfiability ".

Determining the satisfiability of a formula in which each clause is limited to at most two literals is NL-complete ; this problem is called " 2SAT ".

Determining the satisfiability of a formula in which each clause is a Horn clause ( i. e. it contains at most one positive literal ) is P-complete ; this problem is called Horn-satisfiability.

Determining styles in capoeira is a very tough task, since there was never a unity in the original capoeira, or a teaching method before the decade of 1920.

Determining an instance of the membership problem ; i. e. given a string, determine whether where is the language generated by some grammar ; is also known as parsing.

Determining a " country of origin " is thus much more difficult than determining other aspects of a gem ( such as cut, clarity etc.

Determining the presence of both parts of this definition is not always straightforward, as hypoglycemic symptoms and effects are vague and can be produced by other conditions ; people with recurrently low glucose levels can lose their threshold symptoms so that severe neuroglycopenic impairment can occur without much warning, and many measurement methods ( especially glucose meters ) are imprecise at low levels.

Determining how many people died in these massacres overall is difficult.

Determining whether a particular event or proceeding constitutes the commencement of adversarial criminal proceedings requires both an examination of the rules of criminal procedure for the jurisdiction in which the crime is charged and the Supreme Courts cases dealing with the issue of when formal prosecution begins.

Determining the distances to astronomical objects is crucial to understanding them, but the vast majority of objects are too far away for their distances to be directly determined.

Determining if the customer is likely to return to reclaim an item is a subjective decision, and wily customers may attempt to persuade the pawnshop owner that the item in question is important to them (" that necklace belonged to my grandmother, so I will certainly return for it "), and they will claim that they will return to recover it.

Determining the grazing angle with respect to a planar surface is trivial, but the computation for almost any other surface is significantly more difficult.

* Determining whether or not a knot is trivial is known to be in the complexity class NP

Determining part of a protein's amino-acid sequence ( often one end ) by one of the above methods may be sufficient to enable the identification of a clone carrying the gene.

Determining the QR decomposition of a symmetric tridiagonal matrix costs operations .< ref > James M. Ortega and Henry F. Kaiser, " The LL < sup > T </ sup > and QR methods for symmetric tridiagonal matrices ," The Computer Journal 6 ( 1 ), 99 – 101 ( 1963 ).</ ref >

Determining forecast accuracy, like forecasting itself, can never be performed with certainty and so it is advisable to ensure that input data is measured and obtained as accurately as possible, the most appropriate forecasting methods are selected, and the forecasting process is conducted as rigorously as possible.

Determining such forces was required before building codes could specify the required strength of such buildings and such tests continue to be used for large or unusual buildings.

* Determining environmental conditions and " ground rules " such as day / night, weather, scoring systems, allowable weapons or gameplay types, time limits, and starting resources.

Determining whether such paths and cycles exist in graphs is the Hamiltonian path problem, which is NP-complete.

Determining costs requires keeping records of goods or materials purchased and any discounts on such purchase.

This new system integrates with the various LTA's traffic management existing systems, such as the Green Link Determining System ( GLIDE ), TrafficScan, Expressway Monitoring Advisory System ( EMAS ), Junction Electronic Eyes ( J-Eyes ), and the Electronic Road Pricing system.

* Determining the basic effects of a control treatment ( such as a dose-survival curve in clonogenic assay )

Determining the cause of such accidents is difficult for investigators and it is often impossible to tell if negligence caused the crash.

Determining when the first engagement of the United States in World War II occurred depends on the scholar and if such actions led to formal entry of the United States into the conflict.

The book includes chapters such as " The Chemistry of Milk ", " The Chemistry of Baking Powders and Their Use in Baking ", " The Chemistry of Vegetable Cookery " and " Determination of Hydrogen Ion Concentration " and contains numerous illustrations of lab experiments including such things as a Distillation Apparatus for Vegetable Samples and a Pipette for Determining the Relative Viscosity of Pectin Solutions.

Determining which proteins are poly-ubiquitinated can be helpful in understanding how protein pathways are regulated.

Determining whether a given food should be classified as bread, cake, or pastry can be difficult.

Determining the penetrance of the C282Y allele can be influenced by when, in the course of a lifetime, homozygotes are evaluated by the medical community.

Determining the strength of different manufactures of pepper sprays can be confusing.

Determining whether an employee has custody or possession can be difficult.

Determining if and to what extent a person can transfer their learned knowledge can be a strong indication of the quality of the learning experience itself.

Determining whether a player is in " active play " can be complex.

Determining whether the victim obtained title or possession can present problems.

Determining the principal value of some of these functions can be obtained by decomposing the function into simpler ones whereby the principal value of the simple functions are straightforward to obtain.

Determining whether any changes have been made to a message ( or a file ), for example, can be accomplished by comparing message digests calculated before, and after, transmission ( or any other event ).

Determining the age and sex of birds in brown plumage can be very difficult.

Determining an orthogonal transformation to tridiagonal form can be done with the Lanczos algorithm.

Determining what records have enduring value can be challenging.

Determining the head of navigation can be subjective on many streams, as this point may vary greatly with the size of the ship being contemplated for navigation.

* Determining relative humidity: The percent relative humidity can be located at the intersection of the vertical dry bulb and diagonally down sloping wet bulb temperature lines.

Determining fraud committed by the health insurance companies can sometimes be found be comparing revenues from premiums paid against the expenditure by the health insurance companies on claims.

Determining whether a particular reaction is conrotatory or disrotatory can be accomplished by examining the molecular orbitals of each molecule.

Determining the authenticity of a prewar Gibson banjo can be a real challenge, for a variety of reasons: