O-Plan: a Knowledge-Based Planner and its Application to Logistics

O Plan is a command planning and control ar chitecture with an open modular structure in tended to allow experimentation on or replace ment of various components The research is seeking to determine which functions are gener ally required in a number of application areas and across a number of di erent command planning scheduling and control systems O Plan aims to demonstrate how a planner sit uated in a task assignment and plan execution command and control environment and us ing extensive domain knowledge can allow for exible distributed collaborative and mixed initiative planning The research is seeking to verify this total systems approach by studying a simpli ed three level model with separable task assignment plan generation and plan execution agents O Plan has been applied to logistics tasks that require exible response in changing situations