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European Networkof Excellence inAI Planning

Project Overview

Recent Developments & Future Work

Susanne Biundo

University of Ulm

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General Objectives

increase awareness, visibility, and

international collaboration

promote the orientation of research towards

application requirements

support high-quality training and teaching

promote the transfer of the technology

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WP1: Synergy in research and development

WP2: Technology transfer and communication

WP3: Technical co-ordination units

WP4: Training and exchange

WP5: Information infrastructure and management

Work Packages

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Technical Co-ordination Units

Aerospace Applications

Workflow Management

Robot Planning

Knowledge Engineering

Intelligent Manufacturing

On-line Planningand Scheduling

Web-based Applications

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Pan-European Impact

PLANET II has a considerable impact on the organisation of pan-European collaboration.

increased awareness and collaboration between European planning groups

approach by ESA to regard PLANET II as an ESA Competence Network

formation of a Spanish national Network of Excellence on Planning, Scheduling, and Temporal Reasoning

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International Presence

PLANET II raised the international weight of

European P&S.

organisation of AIPS’02 in Toulouse

formation of ICAPS council and steering

committee

organisation of ICAPS’03 in Trento

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Co-ordination of Research

PLANET II organised and supported six technical work-

shops and supported the AIPS’02 planning competition.

four workshops at AIPS’02, April 23-24, Toulouse

AI Planning and Scheduling for Autonomy in

Space Applications, July 6, Manchester

Web-based Resources and Knowledge

Interchange Formats for AI P&S, July 23,

Lyon, co-located with ECAI’02

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Awareness and Visibility

PLANET II promoted pan-European collaborationacross community borders and between academia and industry.

participation in the European Commission’s

EoI exercise

I-PLANS Dyna-Tool PLANSERVE

I4GMES AMIR

participation in the E2002 and ICT&P

conferences in Prague and Primorsko (Bulgaria)

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PLANET II attracted students and young researchersto the field.

contribution to the AIPS’02 scholarship programme (PLANET II, AAAI, NASA)

organisation of the 2nd International Summer School on AI Planning and Scheduling

doctoral consortium at ICAPS’03 3rd summer school

Training and Teaching

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Information Infrastructure

PLANET II improved its information supply and

infrastructure as a service to the community.

construction of research website

construction of case study repository

implementation of new PLANET

website structure and layout

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Internal Evaluation

40% of member nodes participated

main interests

technical aspects

applications of P&S technology (75%)

benefits for members

information about latest news in the area

workshops, conferences, summer schools

exchange with other nodes

knowledge of real world planning problems

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Internal Evaluation

main sources for news in the field

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Internal Evaluation

intended contributions

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Internal Evaluation

Topics • large-scale (production) scheduling• real-world applications

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Internal Evaluation

High interest

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Internal Evaluation

Topics • actual applications of planning (rather than of scheduling)• applications in traffic management/planning

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Internal Evaluation

Topics • developing marketing materials on P&S and delivering them to potential industrial users• integration of planning and scheduling techniques

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Internal Evaluation

Topics • combination of AI and OR techniques• constraint and mathematical programming in production p&s• mixed-initiative, interactive p&s• multi-agent scheduling• real-life, large-scale (production) scheduling• cognitive planning

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Readiness to Contribute

High acceptance of our media

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Project presentation

new design and structure of project web site

common look-and-feel of all pages

complete information site

workshop and summer school proceedings

reports, presentations

newsletter issues

pointers to repositories and events

Information Infrastructure cont.

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Information Infrastructure cont.

PLANET News

realisation of new conceptmagazine-like : articles, reports, announcements,

challenge problems, ...

ISSN : 1619-0204

TCU-specific leaflets, posters

150 subscribers to PLANET II mailinglist

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Future Work

Complete our work in PLANET

road maps

curriculum

exploitation plan

Continue our collaboration within FP6