deale@aurora.laic.uucp (Michael Deale) (08/26/89)
I have a article titled: AI Planning: A Tutorial and Review it is by Mark Drummond, and Austin Tate. Austin Tate is referenced in the bibliography as working on a system named O-PLAN... There are a number of such references to this system, and I am looking for more information on his work... Unfortunately most of the published papers are European, and difficult to find in the local libraries... I have tried Stanford's library, and only found one of the references. Does anyone know how to get in touch with the folks working on O-PLAN, or where to get thier papers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Thanks for any help you can provide. MJD
roberto@aiai.uucp (Roberto Desimone) (08/31/89)
In article <689@laic.UUCP> deale@aurora.laic.uucp (Michael Deale) writes: >I have a article titled: > >AI Planning: A Tutorial and Review > >it is by > >Mark Drummond, and Austin Tate. > > >Austin Tate is referenced in the bibliography as working on a >system named O-PLAN... There are a number of such references >to this system, and I am looking for more information on his >work... Unfortunately most of the published papers are European, >and difficult to find in the local libraries... I have tried Stanford's >library, and only found one of the references. > >Does anyone know how to get in touch with the folks working on O-PLAN, >or where to get thier papers in the San Francisco Bay Area. > >Thanks for any help you can provide. > >MJD We have since been in touch with Michael Deale concerning our work on the O-Plan project. Most of the previous publications on O-Plan describe earlier versions of the system. However, there are more recent papers, including a more definitive paper about O-Plan, which is currently being reveiwed for publication. This is available from AIAI: O-Plan: the Open Planning Architecture Currie, K.W. and Tate, A. Submitted for publication. Also available as AIAI-TR-67. Another paper, on search space pruning within O-Plan using a technique called 'Temporal Coherence' was presented at IJCAI-89, jointly authored by Mark Drummond (ex-AIAI), now of NASA Ames, AI Research Center, and Ken Currie of AIAI. O-Plan is being further developed as part of a 3 year research contract funded by the USAF, co-ordinated by RADC, on "Spacecraft Command and Control using AI Planning techniques" which began in July 1989. The research, in particular, addresses the issue of closing the loop between plan generation and executing monitoring in the face of simple plan failures. This project is includes the doctoral work done by Brian Drabble, now at AIAI, on EXCALIBUR. This integrates qualitative reasoning techniques with existing non-linear planning research to tackle the tasks of plan execution monitoring and repair. See AIAI-TR-56. For more details about O-Plan and our other planning and scheduling research work, please get in touch with us at the following address: AI Applications Institute (AIAI) University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN Tel: +44 31 225-4464 Fax: +44 31 226-2730 or e-mail one of the following Ken Currie k.currie%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Roberto Desimone r.desimone%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Brian Drabble b.drabble%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Roberto Desimone Knowledge-Based Planning Group (KBPG) at AIAI