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Research, development and use of planning and activity management systems:
- Task, process, plan and activity representation (e.g.,
<I-N-C-A>
and SPAR);
- I-X: Intelligent
Planning and Execution Agent Technology;
- Earlier planners:
Traverser
and Interplan,
Nonlin,
O-Plan;
- Execution support, replanning and workflow;
- Inter-agent collaboration (e.g.,
CoAX,
Co-OPR,
CoAKTinG,
OpenVCE.net)
- Advanced Knowledge Technologies
(AKT,
OpenKnowledge);
- Applications in manufacturing, spacecraft mission sequencing,
project planning, logistics, I-Rescue,
e-Response,
FireGrid,
search and rescue, coalition planning, etc.;
- Virtual Worlds
(Vue,
Openvue,
I-Room);
- Helpful Environment;
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Austin Tate's long term aim is the creation and use of task-centric
virtual organisations involving people, government and
non-governmental organisations, automated systems, grid and web
services working alongside intelligent robotic, vehicle, building and
environmental systems to respond to very dynamic events on scales from
local to global.
See http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/ for more details.
Austin Tate's Planning Systems
Traverser (also called Graph Traverser 4 - GT4) was created
during 1971-1972 in an undergraduate student project in Computer
Studies at the University of Lancaster. It built on the work of
Donald Michie and his colleagues at the Department of Machine
Intelligence and Perception at the University of Edinburgh.
Interplan was created in 1972-1975 as part of Austin Tate's
PhD, supervised by Professor Donald Michie at the Machine Intelligence
Research Unit at the University of Edinburgh.
Nonlin was created in 1975-1976 during the first year of the UK
Science Research Council project entitled "Planning: a joint AI/OP
Approach" whose Principal Investigator was Professor Bernard Meltzer.
Lesley Daniel was the OR researcher on the project. Nonlin continued
to be developed in the 1982-3 period in joint work with Steve Vere at
the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (who created the DEVISER planner),
and with Andrew Whiter at Systems Designers Ltd in the UK. Brian
Drabble's Excalibur planner built on
Nonlin by adding a qualitative process reasoner.
More details of Nonlin and publications about its
technology and applications are available
here.
O-Plan drew on the Nonlin work and was developed over the
period 1983-1999 by a team of researchers, students and collaborating
organisations. It was also the basis of the design of the
OPTIMUM-AIV planner used for Ariane
rocket payload pay assembly, integration and verification by the
European Space Agency.
More details of O-Plan and publications about its
technology and applications are available
here.
I-X/I-Plan work started in
2000 and continues to date. More details of I-X/I-Plan and
publications about its technology and applications are available
here.
Traverser Documents
Tate, A., (1972) Report: "The development and use of a heuristic
problem solver" for project as part of B.A. in Computer Studies at the
University of Lancaster, March 1972.
[ PDF Format ]
Interplan Documents
Tate, A. (1973) Handout for talk on new planner, to School of
Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 20-Nov-1973.
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Tate, A., (1974) "Interacting goals in problem solving" AISB Newsletter, 18, pp. 31-38, November 1974.
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Tate, A., (1975) "INTERPLAN: a plan generation system which can deal
with interactions between goals" Research Memorandum MIP-R-109,
Edinburgh: Machine Intelligence Research Unit, December 1974.
[ PDF Format ]
Tate, A., (1975) "Interacting Goals and their Use", Proceedings of the
Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-75) pp. 215-218, Tbilisi, USSR, September 1975.
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Tate, A., (1976) "Using Goal Structure to direct search in a problem
solver" Ph.D. Thesis, University of Edinburgh, September l975.
Nonlin Documents
Tate, A., (1975) "Generating Project Networks", Proceedings of the
Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-77) pp. 888-893, Boston, Mass. USA, August 1977. Reprinted in
"Readings in Planning", Morgan-Kaufmann, 1990.
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Daniel, L. and Tate, A., (1976) "An overview of the project: Planning:
a joint AI/OR approach", Unpublished, Department of Artificial
Intelligence, University of Edinburgh.
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Tate, A., (1976) "Project planning using a hierarchic non-linear
planner" Research Report No. 25, Edinburgh: Department of Artificial
Intelligence, August 1976.
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Tate, A. and Daniel, L. (1982) "A Retrospective on the Planning: a
joint AI/OR Approach Project". Department of Artificial Intelligence
Working Paper 125, Edinburgh. October, 1982.
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Tate, A., (1983) "The Less Obvious Side of Nonlin", Unpublished,
Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh. 22-Aug-1983.
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O-Plan Documents
All publications related to O-Plan are available at
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/oplan/documents/.
I-X/I-Plan Documents
All publications related to I-X/I-Plan are available at
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/ix/documents/.
A leaflet describing applications of Nonlin and AI Planning work at
Edinburgh's Planning Group, published in 1983, is available in
PDF Format (2.5MB) and
as a JPG Image (4.2MB).
A leaflet describing Edinburgh University AI planning applications work, published in
2006 is available in
PDF Format (360KB) and
as a JPG Image (1MB).
