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,
e-Response)
- 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
- Howard Beck
- Colin Bell
- Ken Currie
- Jessica Chen-Burger
- Jeff Dalton
- Roberto Desimone
- Brian Drabble
- Mark Drummond
- Anja Haman
- Peter Jarvis
- Ken Johnson
- John Kingston
- Richard Kirby
- John Levine
- Eva Onaindia
- Stephen Potter
- Michael Rovatsos
- Arthur Seaton
- Judith Secker
- Jussi Stader
- Austin Tate
- Richard Tobin
- Gerhard Wickler
- Ph.D Students:
- Adam Barker
- Punyanuch Borwarnginn
- Peter Clarke
- Thomas French
- Danai Korre
- Natasha Lino
- Tom McCallum
- Steve Polyak
- Glen Reece
- Clauirton de Siebra
- Eleanor Sim
- Henrik Westerberg
- Alan White
- Visitors:
- Colin Bell, University of Iowa
- Jeff Bradshaw, IHMC, Pensacola, Florida, USA
- Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
Teaching
Spinout Company
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Software Systems
- Traverser: (1971-72) 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". Runable as a web service.
- I-X: (2000-2010) 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.
- Edinburgh AI Planners on GitHub (archived in GitHub "Arctic Code Vault").
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
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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
UK Programme Involvement
International Programme Involvement
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