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Planning and Activity Management
The Planning and Activity Management Group 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, etc.
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 (Genetic Algorithms and Neural
Nets)
- 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)
- Air Campaign Planning
- Search & Rescue Coordination
- Emergency and Unusual Procedure Assistance
(i-rescue.org)
- US Army Small Unit Operations
- Coalition Operations
- Spacecraft Mission Planning
- Construction Planning
- Logistics
- Engineering Tasks
- Systems Management Aids
- Help Desks and Assistants
- Management Tasks
- Personal Assistants
- 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.
- 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.
Projects
- Planning and Activity Representation
<I-N-OVA> & <I-N-CA>
NIST Process Specification Language
SPAR - Shared Planning and Activity Representation
Cyc Process & Plan Representation
Ontoweb Process
Standards Working Group
Semantic Web Services Initiative
- Planning and Activity Management Technology
I-X
O-Plan
Enterprise
CoAX - Coalition Agents eXperiment
CoSAR-TS - Coalition Search and Rescue - Task Support
AKT - Advanced Knowledge Technologies
CoAKTinG - Collaborative
Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid
- Previous Projects
Secretarial Co-worker,
Time Management Aid,
T-SAT,
PlanERS-1,
Optimum-AIV,
EUMETSAT,
TOSCA,
UK Search & Rescue,
GhostWriter,
Rota,
Process Interchange Format,
Core Plan Representation,
Workflow Management Coalition,
DARPA Air Operation
Enterprise Modelling (AOEM),
Task-Based Process Management
Informatics Associations
UK Programme Involvement
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 - DARPA/AFRL Planning Initiative
- CoABS - DARPA Control of Agent Based
Systems Program
- DAML - DARPA Agent Markup Language Program
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