The Technology:
The Technology Synthesis and execution of plans of action actions as to be executed by autonomous systems or virtual agents system control activities as to be pursued in business and production processes process design - process control tasks as to be performed in management and organisation processes process design - decision support
Planning versus Scheduling:
Planning versus Scheduling Planning Given a task specification, generate a course of actions whose execution performs the task select suitable actions
find an appropriate ordering of these actions Scheduling Given a set of actions, resources, and constraints, generate a schedule for these actions that assigns resources to actions
satisfies the constraints
is optimal
Improvements to be gained:
Improvements to be gained AI P&S enables the development of systems of increased Autonomy
Flexibility
Robustness
Adaptivity
declarative domain models
synthesis and reasoning procedures
PLANET :
PLANET European co-ordinating framework for research
development, and technology transfer in AI P&S
aerospace e-commerce
manufacturing e-work
Funded by the European Commission since 1998
under IST KA II
60 nodes from 15 countries
universities
research centres
industrial companies
PLANET Technical Co-ordination Units:
PLANET Technical Co-ordination Units Aerospace Applications Workflow Management Robot Planning Knowledge Engineering Intelligent
Manufacturing On-line Planning
and Scheduling Web-based
Applications
Slide7:
European Network of Excellence in AI Planning The network is still open to new members
http://www.planet-noe.org