The Search & Rescue Project

Project Sponsors

DRA Farnborough

Project Summary

1. to develop a generic approach, with appropriate tools to assist in reliable capture of knowledge related to planning, scheduling and resource allocation in the search & rescue domain,
2. to validate the approach by building a demonstrator system.

The project was undertaken by AIAI and the AI Group at the University of Nottingham.

Project Papers

• Shadbolt, N. Cottam, H., Tate, A. and Beck, H. Initial Proposal Document: Acquiring and using planning Knowledge for search and Rescue.
• Cottam, H., Shadbolt, N., Kingston, J., Beck, H. and Tate, A Knowledge Level Planning in the Search and Rescue Domain Proceedings of Expert Systems 95 Conference, Cambridge, 1995.
• Kingston, J., Shadbolt, N. and Tate, A. CommonKADS Models for Knowledge Based Planning AAAI, 1996.

Project Personnel

AI Group, University of Nottingham:

Prof. Nigel Shadbolt and Hugh Cottam

AIAI, University of Edinburgh:

Prof. Austin Tate, John Kingston