Applications
O-Plan is aimed at being relevant to the following types of problems:
- project management for product introduction, systems engineering,
construction
- assembly, integration and verification
- process flow and workflow planning
- planning and control of supply and distribution logistics.
- mission sequencing and control of space probes such as Voyager and
ERS-1.
- crisis response
These applications fit midway between the large scale manufacturing scheduling
problems found in some industries (where there are often few inter-operation
constraints) and the complex puzzles dealt with by very flexible logic
based tools. However, the problems of this type represent an important class
of industrial relevance.
The areas in which O-Plan has already been applied are as follows:
- Space Platform Construction
- Satellite Planning and Control
- Construction and House Building
- Software Development
- Unix administrator's script writing
- Logistics
- Non-Combatant Evacuation Operations
- Crisis Response
- Air Campaign Planning Workflow
- Other Demonstrations
For more information on O-Plan domains, access to the domain
descriptions, and live demonstrations of many of these, see the
Web
Demonstrations.
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Last updated: Thu Apr 27 11:53:21 2000