Advanced Planning Technology: Technological Achievements of the ARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Edited by Austin Tate
May 29-31, 1996, Edinburgh, Scotland. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This proceedings is available in book format.
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Contents
Acknowledgements / v
Smart Planning
Austin Tate, AIAI, University of Edinburgh / vii
The ARPA-Rome Laboratory Knowledge-Based Plannning and Scheduling
Initiative (ARPI)
Northrup Fowler III, Rome Laboratory, Steven E. Cross, Carnegie Mellon
University, Thomas D.Garvey, ARPA, and Mark Hoffman, ISX
Corporation / 3
Technology Development in the ARPA/RL Planning Initiative
Jonathan Stillman and Piero Bonissone, General Electric Corporate Research
and Development Center / 10
The Common Prototyping Environment: A Framework for Technology Integration,
Evaluation, and Transition
Mark H. Burstein and Richard Schantz, BBN Systems and Technologies,
Marie A. Bienkowski and Marie E. desJardins, SRI International, and Stephen
Smith, CMU Robotics Institute / 24
Demonstrating the Operational Feasibility of New Technologies: The ARPI IFDs
Marie A. Bienkowski, SRI International, and Gary Edwards, ISX
Corporation / 35
Developing a Transition Path for ARPI Technology into the Air Campaign Planning
Domain
Mark Hoffman, Anna Griffith, Jim Shoop, and Louis Rumanes, ISX
Corporation / 43
Project Papers
Planning in Complex Worlds via Mixed-Initiative Interaction
James F. Allen, George M. Ferguson, and Len K. Schubert, University of
Rochester / 53
Query Processing in the SIMS Information Mediator
Yigal Arens, Chun-Nan Hsu, and Craig A. Knoblock, University of Southern
California, Information Sciences Institute / 61
SOCAP: System for Operations Crisis Action Planning
Marie Bienkowski, SRI International / 70
Temporal Reasoning for Planning and Scheduling in Complex Domains:
Lessons Learned
Mark S. Boddy, Honeywell Technology Center / 77
Combining Planning Contexts
Sasa Buvac and John McCarthy, Stanford University / 84
The Peaks and Valleys of ALPS: An Adaptive Learning and Planning System for
Transportation Scheduling
Randall J. Calistri-Yeh, Odyssey Research Associates, Alberto Maria
Segre, University of Iowa, and David Sturgill, Cornell University / 89
A Cooperative Database System (CoBase) for Query Relaxation
Wesley W. Chu, Hua Yang, and Gladys Chow, University of California, Los
Angeles / 97
Plan Steering and Mixed-Initiative Planning
Paul Cohen, Tim Oates, and Robert St. Amant, University of Massachusetts /105
Simulation for ARPI and the Air Campaign Simulator
Paul Cohen, Scott Anderson, and David Westbrook, University of
Massachusetts / 113
Challenges for Theory and Practice in Planning
Thomas Dean and Jak Kirman, Brown University / 119
Knowledge Acquisition Tools for Planning Systems
Marie desJardins, SRI International / 124
Toward Rational Planning and Replanning: Rational Reason Maintenance, Reasoning
Economies, and Qualitative Preferences
Jon Doyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology / 130
Approximate Planning
Matthew L. Ginsberg, CIRL University of Oregon / 136
GSAT and Dynamic Backtracking
Matthew L. Ginsberg, CIRL, University of Oregon, and David A. McAllister,
AT&T Bell Laboratory / 143
A Softbot-Based Interface to the Internet
Oren Etzioni and Daniel Weld, University of Washington / 152
Plan Simulation Using Bayesian Networks
Moisés Goldszmidt and Adnan Darwiche, Rockwell Science Center /158
The Role of Case Based Planning in Large Scale Planning Systems
Kristian J. Hammond, University of Chicago / 165
"Classical" Planning under Uncertainty
Steve Hanks, University of Washington / 173
High-Performance Support for Case-Based Planning Applications
James Hendler and Kilian Stoffel, University of Maryland, and Alice M.
Mulvehill, The MITRE Corporation / 181
An Architecture for Information Agents
Donald P. McKay, Jon Pastor, and Robin McEntire, Loral Defense Systems,
and Tim Finin, University of Maryland / 187
Evaluating Air Campaign Plan Quality in Operational Settings
Thomas E. Miller, Laura G. Militello, and Jennifer K. Heaton, Klein
Associates, Inc. / 195
Building, Remembering, and Revising Force Deployment Plans
Alice M. Mulvehill, The MITRE Corporation / 201
Advisable Planning Systems
Karen L. Myers, SRI International / 206
Conditional Nonlinear Planning
Mark A. Peot, Stanford University, and David E. Smith, Rockwell
International / 210
Planning in Dynamic Environments: The DIPART System
Martha E. Pollack, University of Pittsburgh / 218
Synthesis of Planning and Scheduling Software
Douglas R. Smith, Eduardo A. Parra, and Stephen J. Westfold, Kestrel
Institute / 226
Configurable, Mixed-Initiative Systems for Planning and
Scheduling
Stephen F. Smith, Ora Lassila, and Marcel Becker, Carnegie Mellon University
/ 235
Temporal Reasoning for Mixed Initiative Planning
Jonathan Stillman, Richard Arthur, and James Farley, General Electric
Research and Development Center / 242
EXPECT: A User-Centered Environment for the Development and Adaptation of
Knowledge-Based Planning Aids
William R. Swartout and Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California,
Information Sciences Institute / 250
O-Plan: A Knowledge-Based Planner and Its Application to Logistics
Austin Tate, Brian Drabble and Jeff Dalton, AIAI, University of
Edinburgh / 259
Asynchronous Dynamic Replanning in a Multiagent Planning Architecture
David E. Wilkins and Karen L. Myers, SRI International / 267
Supplement
Towards Mixed Initiative Rationale-Supported Planning
M. M. Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University / 277-282
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