Project Overview Recent Developments & Future Work

1. Project OverviewRecent Developments & Future Work Susanne Biundo University of Ulm

2. General Objectives increaseawareness, visibility, and international collaboration promote the orientation of research towards application requirements support high-quality training and teaching promote the transfer of the technology General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

3. 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 General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

4. Technical Co-ordination Units Intelligent Manufacturing Web-based Applications Workflow Management On-line Planning and Scheduling Knowledge Engineering Robot Planning Aerospace Applications General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

5. 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 General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

6. International Presence PLANET II raised the international weight of European P&S. organisation of AIPS’02 in Toulouse formation of ICAPS council and steering committee organisation of ICAPS’03 in Trento General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

7. Co-ordination of Research PLANET II organised and supported six technical work- shops and supported the AIPS’02 planning competition. four workshops at AIPS’02, 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 P&S, July 23, Lyon, co-located with ECAI’02 General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

8. Awareness and Visibility PLANET II promoted pan-European collaboration across community borders and between academia and industry. participation in the European Commission’s EoI exercise I-PLANS Dyna-Tool PLANSERVE I4GMES AMIR participation in the E2002 and ICT&P conferences in Prague and Primorsko (Bulgaria) General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

9. Training and Teaching PLANET II attracted students and young researchers to the field. contribution to the AIPS’02 scholarship programme (PLANET II, AAAI, NASA) organisation of the 2nd International Summer School on AI Planning and Scheduling doctoral consortium at ICAPS’03 3rd summer school General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

10. 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 General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

11. Internal Evaluation 40% of member nodes participated main interests technical aspects applications of P&S 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 General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

12. Internal Evaluation main sources for news in the field General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

13. Internal Evaluation intended contributions General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

14. Internal Evaluation • Topics • large-scale (production) scheduling • real-world applications General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

15. Internal Evaluation High interest General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

16. Internal Evaluation • Topics • actual applications of planning • (rather than of scheduling) • applications in traffic • management/planning General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

17. Internal Evaluation • Topics • developing marketing materials on • P&S and delivering them to • potential industrial users • integration of planning and • scheduling techniques General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

18. Internal Evaluation • Topics • combination of AI and OR techniques • constraint and mathematical • programming in production p&s • mixed-initiative, interactive p&s • multi-agent scheduling • real-life, large-scale (production) • scheduling • cognitive planning General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

19. Readiness to Contribute High acceptance of our media General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

20. 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 newsletter issues pointers to repositories and events General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

21. 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 General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo

22. Future Work Complete our work in PLANET road maps curriculum exploitation plan Continue our collaboration within FP6 General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo