the PRofession. As A kickoff for this ITE Journal issue featuring a transportation planning theme, itE’s transportation Planning council (tPc) Executive committee felt it would be valuable to identify a selected number of topics that are currently of special interest to many members due to their particular relevancy to national, state and local interest. other articles in this edition of ITE Jo...

Planning military operations is arguably the most complex and critical activity undertaken by any modern organisation. Equipment and supplies are expensive, errors can be deadly and affect the sovereignty of nations, operational tempo is high and small details can sometimes make all the difference. This paper describes an R&D program being undertaken by Command and Control Division (C2D) of DST...

Surgery in the cranio-maxillo-facial area is complex. However, planning a surgical operation can help the surgeon in enhancing the quality of the operation. On the other hand, progress in planning seems not to be completely justiied if the planning strategy cannot be replicated during its execution. Problems occur during planning as well as during execution. A system that optimally supports the...

Whom we e-mail, where we browse, what we purchase, and the things we search for on the World Wide Web all leave identifiable traces of who we are as individuals. In today’s technology focused landscape, cyberspace represents the new environment in which we communicate, work, shop, and play, and the cyber behaviors we exhibit there give a great deal of insight into our individual identities. Thi...

The MAPGEN system represents a successful mission infusion of mixed-initiative planning technology. MAPGEN was deployed as a mission-critical component of the ground operations system for the Mars Exploration Rover mission. Each day, the ground-planning personnel employ MAPGEN to collaboratively plan the activities of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, with the objective of achieving as much sc...

In this paper, we report on our past and continuing cxperiences in applying an AI generative planning system to the problem of generating crisis action operations plans in a military domain. ~ We describe the application, the System for Operational Crisis Action Planning (SOCAP). and the lessons we learned creating it. We also report on the applied research we performed to address the lessons l...

This paper describes a prototype system for quickly developing joint military courses of action. The system, SOCAP (System for Operations Crisis Action Planning), combines a newly extended version of an AI planning system, SIPE{2 (System for Interactive Planning and Execution), with a color map display and applies this technology to military operations planning. This paper describes the Socap p...

We are developing a plan construction and plan execution monitoring system to automate the operation of the communications link in NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN). The objectives of this effort are: (1) to archive knowledge of operations procedures; (2) provide a capability to assist in execution monitoring; and (3) provide a capability for automatically constructing the plan to be executed and...

Current landslide hazard analysis does a poor job of informing the planning process for forest operations in that landslide models provide maps of landslide hazard instead of quantitative measure of landslide impact. Other aspects of forest management planning (such as road surface erosion) provide quantifiable estimates of impacts such as tons of sediment delivered to the stream. This paper ou...

Crops are harvested by performing a series of operations with harvesting vehicles in the field. The harvest operation is performed with combines (harvesters). Supporting logistical activities of transferring and transporting harvest (grain) from the field to the farm are carried out with the help of tractors. This research focuses on detailed logistics planning of various infield harvest operat...