Intelligent Systems - Planning and Activity Management The Planning and Activity Management Group within the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh is exploring representations and reasoning mechanisms for inter-agent activity support. The agents may be people or computer systems working in a coordinated fashion. The group explores and develops generic approaches by engaging in specific applied studies. Applications include crisis action planning, command and control, space systems, manufacturing, logistics, construction, procedural assistance, help desks, emergency response, etc. Our 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.

Objectives To put AI planning and activity management technology to productive use To allow for a shared model of objectives, tasks, plans, options and current world state between human and automated agents To develop new generic methods for planning and activity management To participate in relevant standards activities Technologies Shared Plan and Activity Representation Intelligent Process Management Knowledge-Based Planning Adaptive Systems Approaches to Planning Constraint Management Technology Knowledge-Based Workflow Intelligent Agent Technology Intelligent Activity and Process State Visualisation Modular, Distributed Systems Integration Architectures Applications Non-combatant Evacuation Operations (NEOs) Search & Rescue, Personnel Recovery Emergency Response (i-rescue.org, e-response.org) Coalition Peacekeeping Operations Spacecraft Mission Planning Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs) Construction Planning Logistics Engineering Tasks Systems Management Aids Business Management Tasks Help Desks and Assistants Training and Gaming Environments Personal Assistants Robot Companions People Stuart Aitken Jessica Chen-Burger Jeff Dalton Jussi Stader Stephen Potter Michael Rovatsos Austin Tate Gerhard Wickler Ph.D Students: Adam Barker Thomas French Natasha Lino Tom McCallum Clauirton de Siebra Eleanor Sim Henrik Westerberg Alan White Punyanuch Borwarnginn Visitors: Jeff Bradshaw, IHMC, Pensacola, Florida, USA Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic Teaching School of Informatics M.Sc. Course on Automated Planning AI Planning Open On-line Course: Coursera MOOC [Local Pages] Spinout Company I-C2 Systems Ltd - Intelligent Communication and Coordination

Software Systems Traverser: (1971-2) a graph search problem solver based on the Graph Traverser algorithms of Donald Michie and his colleagues. Interplan: (1972-74) an early planning system whose search was directed by finding and debugging "approaches" that handled the goal structure underlying the problem. Nonlin: (1974-82) the original hierarchical task network, partial-order planner - used as the basis for many text book descriptions of this type of technology. Excalibur was a development of Nonlin which added qualitative process reasoning. O-Plan: (1983-99) an AI planning , execution and plan repair system with extensive representations for temporal, resource and other constraints, support for plan execution monitoring and plan repair "on-the-fly". Runs as a web service. I-X: (2000-present) a portable cross-platform Java-based planning and collaboration support environment. Aid to multi-agent cooperative work and external services use. Based on the <I-N-C-A> conceptual model. Projects Planning and Activity Representation <I-N-OVA>, <I-N-CA> & <I-N-C-A> NIST Process Specification Language SPAR - Shared Planning and Activity Representation Cyc Process & Plan Representation IEEE Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) [ Browse for "Plan" ] Ontoweb Process Standards Working Group Semantic Web Services Initiative Planning and Activity Management Technology CoAX - Coalition Agents eXperiment CoSAR-TS - Coalition Search and Rescue - Task Support Collaborative and Human/Robotic Systems Co-OPR - Collaborative Operations for Personnel Recovery CoAKTinG - Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid IM-PACs - Intelligent Messaging - Planning and Collaboration Systems Project AIBO - Robotic Task Achieving Team Project AIAI2 - AIAI in Second Life I-Room - A Room for Intelligent Interaction Hedlamp - Huddersfield + Edinburgh - Learning and Adaptation of Models for Planning Previous Projects Secretarial Co-worker, Time Management Aid, T-SAT, PlanERS-1, Optimum-AIV, EUMETSAT, TOSCA, UK Search & Rescue, GhostWriter, Rota, Process Interchange Format, Workflow Management Coalition, Enterprise, Task-Based Process Management University of Edinburgh Associations Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications and it's Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute Human Communications Research Center Institute for Communicating and Collaborating Systems Institute for Perception, Action and Behaviour PEA Pod - Processes, Events and Activity Collaborative Research Programme Vue - Virtual University of Edinburgh UK Programme Involvement AKT - Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Advanced Knowledge Technologies FireGrid UK National e-Science Programme UK EPSRC Autonomous and Intelligent Systems Programme International Programme Involvement PLANET - European Network of Excellence in AI Planning OntoWeb - European Network of Excellence in Ontologies for the Web AgentLink - European Network of Excellence in Agent-based Computing ARPI - (D)ARPA/AFRL Planning Initiative CoABS - DARPA Control of Agent Based Systems Program DAML - DARPA Agent Markup Language Fast C2AP - DARPA Fast Connectivity for Coalitions and Agents Project COMPOEX - DARPA Conflict Modeling, Planning, and Outcomes Experimentation (Google if URL has changed) MPAT - Multinational Planning Augmentation Team OpenKnowledge - e-Response I-Globe OpenVCE.net - Open Virtual Collaboration Environment The Helpful Environment