Project Overview Recent Developments

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Project OverviewRecent 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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Work Packages

• 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

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Technical Co-ordination Units
Workflow Management
Intelligent Manufacturing
Web-based Applications
Knowledge Engineering
On-line Planning and Scheduling
Aerospace Applications
Robot Planning
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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 PS.
• organisation of AIPS02 in Toulouse
• formation of ICAPS council and steering
• committee
• organisation of ICAPS03 in Trento

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Co-ordination of Research

PLANET II organised and supported six technical
work- shops and supported the AIPS02 planning
competition. four workshops at AIPS02,
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 PS, July 23, Lyon, co-located with
ECAI02
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Awareness and Visibility

• PLANET II promoted pan-European collaboration
• across community borders and between academia
• and industry.
• participation in the European Commissions
• EoI exercise
• I-PLANS Dyna-Tool
  PLANSERVE
• I4GMES AMIR
• participation in the E2002 and ICTP
• conferences in Prague and Primorsko (Bulgaria)

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Training and Teaching

• PLANET II attracted students and young
  researchers
• to the field.
• contribution to the AIPS02 scholarship
• programme (PLANET II, AAAI, NASA)
• organisation of the 2nd International Summer
• School on AI Planning and Scheduling
• doctoral consortium at ICAPS03
• 3rd summer school

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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 PS 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
• PS 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 ps
• mixed-initiative, interactive ps
• 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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Information Infrastructure cont.
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 newslette
r issues pointers to repositories and events

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Information Infrastructure cont.

PLANET News realisation of new
concept magazine-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