Since its inception, ARPI has supported a number of technology development efforts focused on crisis action planning. In this article we provide a synopsis of the progress made in a selected subset of the technologies that will need to contribute to making the ARPI vision a reality. We focus on ARPl-supported research that is providing critical advances in the enabling technology areas of plan ...

In this paper we consider the role of the International Planning Competition series in the evaluation of planners, both directly through the events themselves, and indirectly through the creation of resources and infrastructure. We also consider the problem of evaluation based on data collected both in the competitions and otherwise and examine some of the issues that arise in attempting to for...

We aim to find a winning strategy that determines the arguments a proponent should assert during a dialogue such that it will successfully persuade its opponent of some goal arguments, regardless of the strategy employed by the opponent. By restricting the strategies we consider for the proponent to what we call simple strategies and by modelling this as a planning problem, we are able to use a...

In this paper, a general multi-level decomposition based framework has been proposed for integration of planning and scheduling in a multi-site, multi-product plant, with applications to paper manufacturing. The problem involves complex issues relating to large-scale production in a hybrid flowshop configuration, decisions relating to minimizing trim losses, while maintaining on-time delivery o...

Semiconductor manufacturing is one of the most complex and capital-intensive processes composed of several hundreds of operations. In today's competitive business environments, it is more important than ever before to manage manufacturing process effectively to achieve better performances in terms of customer satisfaction and productivity than those of competitors. To obtain such fruitful outco...

This article presents the integration of on-line mission planning and flight scheduling for an unmanned aerial vehicle in military observation missions. Planning selects and orders the best subset of observations to be carried out and schedules the observations while accommodating time windows. The vehicle is subjected to speed, fuel supply and flight constraints in a uncertain and dynamic envi...

The planning and scheduling framework which is the object of this paper consists in a loosely-coupled integration which is achieved by cascading a classical planner and a general purpose scheduler. The output of the planning phase yields a partially ordered plan which is then integrated with time and resource constraints to produce a scheduling problem. The research described in this paper is a...

Planning and scheduling have an interesting relationship. In informal usage, planning and scheduling are frequently treated almost interchangeably. In contrast, formally, their refined and tightly specified descriptions appear quite different: planning is a PSPACE-hard problem, while scheduling is an archetypal NP-hard problem. The research communities that examine these problems seem, to a lar...