Planning and Choosing: Augmenting HTN-Based Agents with Mental Attitudes ∗ (2009)
Gerhard Wickler, Stephen Potter, Austin Tate, Michal Pěchouček, Eduard Semsch
This paper describes a new agent framework that fuses an HTN planner, through its underlying conceptual model, with the mental attitudes of the BDI agent architecture, thus exploiting the strengths...
Using Shared Models of Activity to Underpin Coalition Planning (2009)
Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, John Levine, Peter Jarvis
Abstract A shared understanding, based on a shared underlying conceptual model, for objectives, the world state, activities, plans, the planning process, and inter-agent responsibilities and...
Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, Stephen Potter
An I-Room is an “intelligent room ” which can act as a knowledge aid to support collaborative meetings, especially those involving sense-making about the current context, planning and considering...
Gerhard Wickler, Stephen Potter, Austin Tate
The aim of this paper is to describe I-Sim, a simulation tool that is a fully integrated part of the underlying agent framework, I-X. I-Sim controls a discrete event simulator, based on the same...
Liangxiu Han, Stephen Potter, George Beckett, Gavin Pringle, Sung-han Koo, Gerhard Wickler, ...
The FireGrid project aims to harness the potential of advanced forms of computation to support the response to large-scale emergencies (with an initial focus on the response to fires in the built...
Planning and Choosing: Augmenting HTN-Based Agents with Mental Attitudes ∗ (2009)
Gerhard Wickler, Stephen Potter, Austin Tate, Michal Pěchouček, Eduard Semsch
This paper describes a new agent framework that fuses an HTN planner, through its underlying conceptual model, with the mental attitudes of the BDI agent architecture, thus exploiting the strengths...
Using Simulation for Decision Support: Lessons Learned from FireGrid (2009)
Wickler, Gerhard, Beckett, George, Han, Liangxiu, Koo, Sung Han, Potter, Stephen, Pringle, Gavin, ...
This paper describes some of the lessons learned from the FireGrid project. It starts with a brief overview of the project. The discussion of the lessons learned that follows is intended for others...
Abstract Towards a Plan Ontology (2008)
This paper describes inputs to various international standardisation e orts for process and plan interchange. Our approach takes a top down perspective. It seeks to add the small but vital overview...
O-P 3 { Open Planning Process Panels (2008)
Austin Tate, John Levine, Je Dalton, Stuart Aitken
This paper introduces Open Planning Process Panels (O-P 3). These panels are based on explicit models of the planning process and are used to coordinate the development and evaluation of multiple...
A retrospective on the "Planning: A Joint AI/OR Approach " Project (2008)
This memo collects together material produced to report the outcome of
Mixed Initiative Interaction in O-Plan 1 (2008)
Work is described which seeks to support mixed initiative interaction between a \task assignment " or \command " agent and a planning agent. Each agentmaintains an agenda of...
Collaboration in the Semantic Grid: a Basis for e-Learning (2008)
Danius T. Michaelides, Marc Eisenstadt, Stephen Potter, ...
Abstract. The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for the Semantic Grid. This paper presents an overview of the hypertext and knowledge based tools...
Collaboration in the Semantic Grid: a Basis for e-Learning (2008)
Danius T. Michaelides, Marc Eisenstadt, Stephen Potter, ...
Abstract. The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for the Semantic Grid. This paper presents an overview of the hypertext and knowledge based tools...
Distributed Planning and Coordination of Team-oriented Activities N62558-06-P-0353 (2008)
Omb No, Supplementary Notes, Michal Pechoucek, Austin Tate, Eduard Semsch, Jeff Dalton
The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering...
The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response (2008)
Stephen Potter, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Rodrigo Carvalho, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
I-Ex: Intelligent Extreme Expedition Support (2008)
Stephen Potter, Austin Tate, Rob Milne
Abstract. The aim of the I-X research programme is to provide a general framework for performing mixed-initiative synthesis tasks, along with a set of tools that supports its use. This framework...
O-Plan is an Artificial Intelligence Planning System written in Common Lisp that has been developed at the University of Edinburgh over the period 1983 to 1999. It is used in a wide variety of...
AI Planning: Systems and Techniques 1 (2008)
James Hendler, Austin Tate, Mark Drummond, A Long-standing
problem in the field of automated reasoning is designing systems that can describe a set of actions (or a plan) that can be expected to allow the system to reach a desired goal. Ideally, this set of...
I-Ex: Intelligent Extreme Expedition Support (2008)
Stephen Potter, Austin Tate, Rob Milne
Abstract. The aim of the I-X research programme is to provide a general framework for performing mixed-initiative synthesis tasks, along with a set of tools that supports its use. This framework...
Simon Buckingham, Shum David, De Roure, Marc Eisenstadt, Nigel Shadbolt, Austin Tate
Grid infrastructures coupled with semantic web linkage and reasoning open up intriguing new possibilities for scientific collaboration. In this short paper, we outline the research agenda and...
for optimization and resource allocation in Operations Research first require a project network for the task to be specified. The specification of a project network is at present done in an intuitive...
Activity-oriented Instant Messaging for Coalition Operations (2008)
Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, Stephen Potter
Abstract. I-X Process Panels are used to support users who are carrying out processes and responding to events in a cooperative working environment. The panels support the tracking of personal or...
Stephen Potter, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Rodrigo Carvalho, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
Collaborative Tools in the Semantic Grid (2008)
Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Jessica Chen-burger, Jeff Dalton, David De Roure, Marc Eisenstadt, ...
Abstract. The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for distributed e-Science. The project is integrating several knowledge based and hypertext tools...
Michal Pěchouček, Austin Tate, Gerhard Wickler
This paper analyzes the distributed planning architecture proposed by Durfee (Durfee 1999) and discusses the properties of the suggested architecture in a peerto-peer, dynamic and semi-trusted...
Stephen T. Polyak, Austin Tate
Traditional approaches to plan representation focused on the generation of a sequence of actions and orderings. Knowledge rich models, which incorporate plan rationale, provide bene ts to the...
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Stephen Potter, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Rodrigo Carvalho, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
Comparisons and Evaluations of Planners Signposts for the AAAI-94 Workshop (2008)
There are a number of research activities which are contributing to improved communication, classi cation, comparison and evaluation of work on AI planners. There is a closing of the gap between...
Chain ReAKTing: Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Combechem Grid (2008)
Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham, Jeff Dalton, David De, Roure Marc, ...
The CoAKTinG (Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid) project has developed a set of integrated tools to enhance collaboration between e-Scientists. As one of three case studies,...
Key Concepts in the O-Plan2 Knowledge Based Plan Representation (2008)
Knowledge based plan representations have been developed over several decades of ai planning research. They can support a rich model of processes, tasks, plans, resources and agents. These...
Stephen Potter, Gerhard Wickler, Austin Tate
The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its principal user interface, the I-X Process Panel, its underlying ontology, <I-N-C-A>, and how this panel can be used as an...
O-Plan: A Situated Planning Agent 1 (2008)
This paper describes the need to view a planner as situated in an environment dealing with the whole \planning " problem. While a planning agent deals with plan generation aspects, other...
Putting Knowledge Rich Plan Representations to Use (2008)
AI planning research isnow maturing and nding practical application in the commercial, industrial, engineering and defence sectors. This has led to a rapid expansion in the last couple of years of...
OpenKnowledge Deliverable 6.5: Emergency response in an open information systems environment (2008)
Lorenzo Vaccari, Maurizio Marchese, Fausto Giunchiglia, Fiona Mcneill, Stephen Potter, Austin Tate
Abstract. The role of the OpenKnowledge system is to support and enhance the sharing and the effective use of information and services among different actors. In this document we analyze and present...
Figure 1: Roles for <i-n-ova> (2008)
The <i-n-ova> (Issues { Nodes { Orderings/Variables/Auxiliary) Model is a means to represent plans as a set of constraints. By having a clear description of the di erent components within a...
Abstract O-Plan2: Modularity and Interfaces (2008)
O-Plan2 is a command, planning and control architecture being developed at the Arti cial Intelligence Applications Institute of the University of Edinburgh. It has an open modular structure intended...
Collaboration in the Semantic Grid: a Basis for e-Learning (2008)
Danius T. Michaelides, Marc Eisenstadt, Stephen Potter, ...
Abstract. The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for the Semantic Grid. This paper presents an overview of the hypertext and knowledge based tools...
Gerhard Wickler, Austin Tate, Stephen Potter
The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its principal user interface, the I-X Process Panel, its underlying ontology, <I-N-C-A>, and how this panel can be used as an...
ARPI Plan Ontology Background (2007)
This paper describes previous relevant work that could be taken into account for the design of the ARPI Plan Representation. 1 ARPI Work on Plan Representations The AI planning community has used...
Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, John Levine, Jussi Stader
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CoAKTinG: Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid (2007)
Simon Buckingham, Shum David, De Roure, Marc Eisenstadt, Nigel Shadbolt, Austin Tate
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O-Plan: A Situated Planning Agent 1 (2007)
Abstract. This paper describes the need to view a planner as situated in an environment dealing with the whole \planning " problem. While a planning agent deals with plan generation aspects,...
The O-Plan Constraint Associator 1 The O-Plan Constraint Associator (2007)
South Bridge, Jeff Dalton, Jeff Dalton, Brian Drabble, Brian Drabble, Austin Tate, ...
O-Plan2 is a command, planning and control architecture which has an open modular structure intended to allow experimentation on or replacement of various components. The research is seeking to...
Austin Tate, Brian Drabble, Jeff Dalton
O-Plan is a command, planning and control architecture with an open modular structure intended to allow experimentation on, or replacement of, various components. The research is seeking to determine...
O-Plan2: Modularity and Interfaces (2007)
O-Plan2 is a command, planning and control architecture being developed at the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute of the University of Edinburgh. It has an open modular structure intended...
1 Key Concepts in the O-Plan2 Knowledge Based Plan Representation (2007)
Knowledge based plan representations have been developed over several decades of ai planning research. They can support a rich model of processes, tasks, plans, resources and agents. These...
1 O-Plan: the Open Planning Architecture (2007)
Ken Currie, Austin Tate, South Bridge
O-Plan is an AI planner based on previous experience with the Nonlin planner and its derivatives. Nonlin and other similar planning systems had limited control architectures and were only partially...
Using Shared Models of Activity to Underpin Coalition Planning (2007)
Austin Tate, Je Dalton, John Levine, Peter Jarvis
A shared understanding, based on a shared underlying conceptual model, for objectives, the world state, activities, plans, the planning process, and inter-agent responsibilities and authorities can...
A Planning Agent on the World Wide Web (2007)
Work is described which seeks to support multi-agent mixed initiative interaction between a "task assignment " or "command " agent and a planning agent
Putting Knowledge Rich Plan Representations to Use (2007)
AI planning research is now maturing and finding practical application in the commercial, industrial, engineering and defence sectors. This has led to a rapid expansion in the last couple of years of...
Mixed Initiative Interaction in O-Plan 1 (2007)
Work is described which seeks to support mixed initiative interaction between a "task assignment " or "command " agent and a planning agent. Each agent maintains...
e have defined a research programme that will explore the link between planning and exep cution systems. A simple scenario has been defined in which we have a very capable off-line lanning system...
1 Integrating Constraint Management into an (2007)
O-Plan is a command, planning and control architecture which has an open modular structure intended to allow experimentation on or replacement of various components. The research is seeking to...
O-Plan: A Situated Planning Agent 1 (2007)
This paper describes the need to view a planner as situated in an environment dealing with the whole "planning " problem. While a planning agent deals with plan generation aspects,...
O-Plan is an Artificial Intelligence Planning System written in Common Lisp that has been developed at the University of Edinburgh over the period 1983 to 1999. It is used in a wide variety of...
• Emergency and Unusual Procedure Assistance (I-Rescue) • Help Desk Support (I-Help) (2007)
Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, Jussi Stader
Abstract. I-X is a research programme with a number of different aspects intended to create a well-founded approach to allow humans and computer systems to cooperate in the creation or modification...
Planning and Choosing: Augmenting HTN-Based Agents with Mental Attitudes. (2007)
Wickler, G, Potter, S, Tate, Austin, Pechoucek, M, Semsch, E
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Collaborative Operations for Personnel Recovery Final Report on DARPA/AFRL (2007)
Tate, Austin, Dalton, J, Stader, J, Wickler, G, Hansberger, J
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The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Reponse (2007)
Potter, S, Kalfoglou, Y, Alani, H, Bachler, M, Buckingham Shum, S, Carvalho, R, ...
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Integrating Discrete Event and Process-Level Simulation for Training in the I-X Framework (2007)
Wickler, G, Tate, Austin, Potter, S
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Supporting Collaborative Operations within a Coalition Personnel Recovery Center (2007)
Wickler, G, Tate, Austin, Hansberger, J
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The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response (2007)
Potter, Stephen, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Alani, Harith, Bachler, Michelle, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Carvalho, Rodrigo, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
Planning and Doing Things (2007)
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Wickler, G, Potter, S, Tate, Austin
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The Helpful Environment: distributed agents and services which cooperate (2006)
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Tate, Austin, Dalton, J, Bradshaw, J M, Uszok, A
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Recording Rationale in for Plan Analysis (2006)
Wickler, G, Potter, S, Tate, Austin
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Using the Constraint Model as a Shared Representation of Intentions for Emergency Response (2006)
Wickler, Gerhard, Tate, Austin, Potter, Stephen
The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its underlying representation: . The latter can be seen as a description of an agent’s intentions, which can be shared and communicated...
Using the Constraint Model as a Shared Representation of Intentions for Emergency Response (2006)
Wickler, Gerhard, Tate, Austin, Potter, Stephen
The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its underlying representation: . The latter can be seen as a description of an agent’s intentions, which can be shared and communicated...
The Helpful Environment: distributed agents and services which cooperate (2006)
Imagine a future environment where a network of sophisticated sensors, protection, and repair systems will be integral to clothing, communications devices, vehicles, transportation systems,...
Potter, Stephen, Tate, Austin, Wickler, Gerhard
The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its principal user interface, the I-X Process Panel, its underlying ontology, , and how this panel can be used as an intelligent to-do list...
The Helpful Environment: Geographically dispersed intelligent agents that collaborate (2006)
Imagine a future environment where a network of sophisticated sensors, protection, and repair systems will be integral to clothing, communications devices, vehicles, transportation systems,...
The Helpful Environment: distributed agents and services which cooperate (2006)
Imagine a future environment where a network of sophisticated sensors, protection, and repair systems will be integral to clothing, communications devices, vehicles, transportation systems,...
Potter, Stephen, Tate, Austin, Wickler, Gerhard
The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its principal user interface, the I-X Process Panel, its underlying ontology, , and how this panel can be used as an intelligent to-do list...
The Helpful Environment: Geographically dispersed intelligent agents that collaborate (2006)
Imagine a future environment where a network of sophisticated sensors, protection, and repair systems will be integral to clothing, communications devices, vehicles, transportation systems,...
Tate, Austin, Buckingham Shum, S J, Dalton, J, Mancini, C, Selvin, A M
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I-Ex: Extreme Expedition Support (2006)
Potter, S, Tate, Austin, Milne, R
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Integrating Collaboration and Activity-Oriented Planning for Coalition Operations Support (2006)
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Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, Clara Mancini, Albert M. Selvin
Personnel recovery teams must operate under intense pressure, taking into account not only hard logistics, but ‘messy ’ factors such as the social or political implications of a decision. The...
Jeff Dalton, Clara Mancini, Albert Selvin, Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, ...
Personnel recovery teams must operate under intense pressure, taking into account not only hard logistics, but ‘messy ’ factors such as the social or political implications of a decision. The...
Gerhard Wickler, Stephen Potter, Austin Tate
Abstract- The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its principal user interface, the I-X Process Panel, its underlying ontology, <I-N-C-A>, and how this panel can be used as an...
Gerhard Wickler, Stephen Potter, Austin Tate
Abstract- The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its principal user interface, the I-X Process Panel, its underlying ontology, <I-N-C-A>, and how this panel can be used as an...
The helpful environment: Distributed agents and services which cooperate (2006)
Abstract. Imagine a future environment where networks of agents- people, robots and software agents- interact with sophisticated sensor grids and environmental actuators to provide advice, protection...
This paper investigates the implications of using concepts of collaboration as part of a planning architecture, which intends to support hierarchical coalition operations. Such concepts are mostly...
Collaboration in the Semantic Grid: a Basis for e-Learning (2005)
Page, Kevin R., Michaelides, Danius T., Buckingham Shum, Simon J., Chen-Burger, Yun-Heh, Dalton, Jeff, De Roure, David C., ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for the Semantic Grid. This paper presents an overview of the hypertext and knowledge based tools which have...
Collaboration in the Semantic Grid: a Basis for e-Learning (2005)
Page, Kevin R., Michaelides, Danius T., Buckingham Shum, Simon J., Chen-Burger, Yun-Heh, Dalton, Jeff, De Roure, David C., ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for the Semantic Grid. This paper presents an overview of the hypertext and knowledge based tools which have...
Collaboration in the Semantic Grid: a Basis for e-Learning (2005)
Page, Kevin R., Michaelides, Danius T., Buckingham Shum, Simon J., Chen-Burger, Yun-Heh, Dalton, Jeff, De Roure, David C., ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for the Semantic Grid. This paper presents an overview of the hypertext and knowledge based tools which have...
Collaboration in the semantic grid: a basis for e-learning (2005)
Page, Kevin R., Michaelides, Danius T., Buckingham Shum, Simon J., Chen-Burger, Yun-Heh, Dalton, Jeff, De Roure, David C., ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for the Semantic Grid. This paper presents an overview of the hypertext and knowledge-based tools that have...
Collaboration in the semantic grid: a basis for e-learning (2005)
Page, Kevin R., Michaelides, Danius T., Buckingham Shum, Simon J., Chen-Buger, Yun-Heh, Dalton, Jeff, Eisenstadt, Marc, ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in ollaborative mediated spaces for the Semantic Grid. This paper presents an overview of the hypertext and knowledge based tools which have...
Collaboration in the Semantic Grid: a Basis for e-Learning (2005)
Page, Kevin R., Michaelides, Danius T., Buckingham Shum, Simon J., Chen-Burger, Yun-Heh, Dalton, Jeff, De Roure, David C., ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for the Semantic Grid. This paper presents an overview of the hypertext and knowledge based tools which have...
Berry, Dave, Usmani, Asif, Torero, Jose L, Tate, Austin, McLaughlin, Stephen, Potter, Stephen, ...
Analyses of disasters such as the Piper Alpha explosion (Sylvester-Evans and Drysdale, 1998), the World Trade Centre collapse (Torero et al, 2002 , Usmani et al, 2003) and the fires at Kings Cross...
Berry, Dave, Usmani, Asif, Torero, Jose L, Tate, Austin, McLaughlin, Stephen, Potter, Stephen, ...
Analyses of disasters such as the Piper Alpha explosion (Sylvester-Evans and Drysdale, 1998), the World Trade Centre collapse (Torero et al, 2002 , Usmani et al, 2003) and the fires at Kings Cross...
Integrating Collaboration and Activity-Oriented Planning for Coalition Operations Support (2005)
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Semantic Support for Visualisation in Collaborative AI Planning (2005)
Lino, N, Tate, Austin, Chen-Burger, Y-H
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Berry, Dave, Usmani, Asif, Torero, Jose L, Tate, Austin, McLaughlin, Stephen, Potter, Stephen, ...
FireGrid is researching the development and integration of modelling, sensors, Grid, HPC, and C/C technologies. It will stimulate further research, in new safety systems and strategies, in new sensor...
Berry, Dave, Usmani, Asif, Torero, Jose L, Tate, Austin, McLaughlin, Stephen, Potter, Stephen, ...
FireGrid is researching the development and integration of modelling, sensors, Grid, HPC, and C/C technologies. It will stimulate further research, in new safety systems and strategies, in new sensor...
Collaboration in the Semantic Grid: A Basis for e-Learning (2005)
Page, K.R, Michaelides, D.T, Buckingham Shum, S.J, Chen-Burger, Y-H, Dalton, J, De Roure, D.C, ...
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Workflow Collaboration with Constraint Solving Capabilities (2005)
Chen-Burger, Y-H, Hui, K, Preece, A.D, Gray, P.M.D, Tate, Austin
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Constraints and AI Planning (2005)
Nareyek, A, Freuder, E C, Fourer, R, Giunchiglia, R P, Kautz, H, Rintanen, J, ...
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Planning with Templates (2005)
Dyer, D, Cross, S, Knoblock, C A, Minton, S, Tate, Austin
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Collaborative Operations for Personnel Recovery (2005)
Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, Jussi Stader, Gerhard Wickler
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Integrating Collaboration and Activity-Oriented Planning for Coalition Operations Support (2005)
Abstract. The use of planning assistant agents is an appropriate option to provide support for members of a coalition. Planning agents can extend the human abilities and be customised to attend...
Constraints and AI planning (2005)
Er Nareyek, Robert Fourer, Eugene C. Freuder, Enrico Giunchiglia, Robert P. Goldman, Henry Kautz, ...
Tackling real-world problems often requires to take various types of constraints into account. Such constraint types range from simple numerical comparators to complex resources. This article...
Workflow Collaboration with Constraint Solving Capabilities (2004)
Chen-Burger, Y-H, Hui, K, Preece, A D, Gray, P M D, Tate, Austin
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Lino, N, Tate, Austin, Chen-Burger, Y
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Uszok, A, Bradshaw, J M, Jeffers, R, Tate, Austin, Dalton, J
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Agent Systems for Coalition Search and Rescue Task Support (2004)
Tate, Austin, Dalton, J, Bradshaw, J M, Uszok, A
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Activity-oriented Instant Messaging for Coalition Operations (2004)
Tate, Austin, Dalton, J, Potter, S
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Supporting Collaboration through Semantic-based Work and Constraint Solving (2004)
Chen-Burger, Y-H, Hui, K-Y, Preece, A.D, Gray, P.M.D, Tate, Austin
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A Visualisation Approach for Collaborative Planning Systems Based on Ontologies (2004)
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Intelligent Agents for Coalition Search and Rescue Task Support (2004)
Tate, Austin, Dalton, J, Siebra, C, Aitken, S, Bradshaw, J M, Uszok, A
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Policy and Contract Management for Semantic Web Services (2004)
Uszok, A, Bradshaw, J.M, Jeffers, R, Johnson, M, Tate, Austin, Dalton, J, ...
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Implementing Hierarchical Agent-Human Teamworks via Constraint-Based Models (2004)
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M-Planning: A Mobile Tool to Support Collaborative Planning (2004)
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Collaborative Tools in the Semantic Grid (2004)
Bachler, Michelle, Buckingham Shum, Dr. Simon, Chen-Burger, Dr. Yun-Heh (Jessica), Dalton, Jeff, Eisenstadt, Prof. Marc, Komzak, Jiri, ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for distributed e-Science. The project is integrating several knowledge based and hypertext tools into...
Collaboration in the Semantic Grid: a Basis for e-Learning (2004)
Bachler, Michelle, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Chen-Burger, Yun-Heh, Dalton, Jeff, De Roure, David, Eisenstadt, Marc, ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for the Semantic Grid. This paper presents an overview of the hypertext and knowledge based tools which have...
Collaborative Tools in the Semantic Grid (2004)
Bachler, Michelle, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Chen-Burger, Jessica, Dalton, Jeff, De Roure, David, Eisenstadt, Marc, ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for distributed e-Science. The project is integrating several knowledge based and hypertext tools into...
Collaboration in the Semantic Grid: a Basis for e-Learning (2004)
Bachler, Michelle, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Chen-Burger, Jessica, Dalton, Jeff, De Roure, David, Eisenstadt, Marc, ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for the Semantic Grid. This paper presents an overview of the hypertext and knowledge based tools which have...
Advanced Knowledge Technologies at the Midterm: Tools and Methods for the Semantic Web (2004)
Shadbolt, Nigel, Ciravegna, Fabio, Domingue, John, Hall, Wendy, Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, ...
Collaborative Tools in the Semantic Grid (2004)
Bachler, Michelle, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Chen-Burger, Jessica, Dalton, Jeff, De Roure, David, Eisenstadt, Marc, ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for distributed e-Science. The project is integrating several knowledge based and hypertext tools into...
Collaboration in the Semantic Grid: a Basis for e-Learning (2004)
Bachler, Michelle, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Chen-Burger, Jessica, Dalton, Jeff, De Roure, David, Eisenstadt, Marc, ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for the Semantic Grid. This paper presents an overview of the hypertext and knowledge based tools which have...
Advanced Knowledge Technologies at the Midterm: Tools and Methods for the Semantic Web (2004)
Shadbolt, Nigel, Ciravegna, Fabio, Domingue, John, Hall, Wendy, Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, ...
Collaborative Tools in the Semantic Grid (2004)
Bachler, Michelle, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Chen-Burger, Jessica, Dalton, Jeff, De Roure, David, Eisenstadt, Marc, ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for distributed e-Science. The project is integrating several knowledge based and hypertext tools into...
Collaboration in the Semantic Grid: a Basis for e-Learning (2004)
Bachler, Michelle, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Chen-Burger, Jessica, Dalton, Jeff, De Roure, David, Eisenstadt, Marc, ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for the Semantic Grid. This paper presents an overview of the hypertext and knowledge based tools which have...
Advanced Knowledge Technologies at the Midterm: Tools and Methods for the Semantic Web (2004)
Shadbolt, Nigel, Ciravegna, Fabio, Domingue, John, Hall, Wendy, Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, ...
KAoS Policy Management for Semantic Web Services (2004)
Uszok, A, Bradshaw, J.M, Jeffers, R, Johnson, M, Tate, Austin, Dalton, J, ...
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Collaborative Task Support and e-Response (2004)
Potter, S, Tate, Austin, Dalton, J
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Advanced Knowledge Technologies at the Midterm: Tools and Methods for the Semantic Web (2004)
Shadbolt, N, Ciravegna, F, Domingue, J, Hall, W, Motta, E, O'Hara, K, ...
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munication,s m Statistics - Theo*'y and Methods (2004)
Nigel Shadbolt, Fabio Ciravegna, John Domingue, Wendy Hall, Enrico Motta, David Robertson, ...
In a celebrated essay on the new electronic media, Marshall McLuhan wrote in 1962: Our private senses are not closed systems but are endlessly translated into each other in that experience which we...
Collaborative Tools in the Semantic Grid (2004)
Michelle Bachler Simon, Simon Buckingham Shum, Marc Eisenstadt, Jiri Komzak, Jessica Chen-burger, Jeff Dalton, ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for distributed e-Science. The project is integrating several knowledge based and hypertext tools into...
Centre For Intelligent, Natasha Queiroz Lino, Austin Tate
In the last decades, many advances have been made in intelligent planning systems. Significant improvements related to core problems, providing faster search algorithms and shortest plans have been...
Planning and Representation of Joint Human-Agent Space Missions via Constraint-Based Models (2004)
Clauirton Siebra, Austin Tate, Natasha Queiroz
During space missions, the interaction between a spacecraft's planner and ground teams is very limited due to restrictions in communication. Commonly the role of such teams is reduced to receive...
Andrzej Uszok, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Renia Jeffers, Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton
In this paper we describe our experience in applying KAoS services to ensure policy compliance for Semantic Web Services workflow composition and enactment. We are developing these capabilities...
Agent Systems for Coalition Search and Rescue Task Support (2004)
Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Andrzej Uszok
Abstract. The Coalition Search and Rescue Task Support project shows cooperative agents supporting a highly dynamic mission in which AI task planning, inter-agent collaboration, workflow enactment,...
munication,s m Statistics - Theo*'y and Methods (2004)
Nigel Shadbolt, Fabio Ciravegna, John Domingue, Wendy Hall, Enrico Motta, David Robertson, ...
In a celebrated essay on the new electronic media, Marshall McLuhan wrote in 1962: Our private senses are not closed systems but are endlessly translated into each other in that experience which we...
I-X: Task Support on the Semantic Web (2003)
Potter, S, Tate, Austin, Dalton, J
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I-Rescue: A Coalition Based System to Support Disaster Relief Operations (2003)
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Dynamic Agent Systems in the CoAX Binni 2002 Experiment (2003)
Wark, S, Zschorn, A, Perugini, D, Tate, Austin, Beautement, P, Bradshaw, J M, ...
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Coalition Task Support using I-X and (2003)
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Concept Mapping Between Compendium and IX (2003)
Chen-Burger, Dr. Yun-Heh, Tate, Prof. Austin
This document provides a conceptual framework for mapping modelling primitives between I-X adn Compendium. It extends the initial description of issues discussed during the CoAKTinG workshop at Open...
Tate, Austin, Dalton, J, Levine, J, Stader, J
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Lino, Ms. Natasha Queiroz, Tate, Prof. Austin, Siebra, Mr. Clauirton, Chen-Burger, Dr. Yun-Heh
Delivering Intelligent Planning Information to Mobile Devices Users in Collaborative Environments
Task Achieving Agents on the World Wide Web (2003)
Tate, Austin, Levine, J, Dalton, J, Nixon, A
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Coalition Task Support using I-X and <I-N-C-A (2003)
Abstract. I-X is a research programme (Tate, 2000b) with a number of different aspects intended to create a well-founded approach to allow humans and computer systems to cooperate in the creation or...
Task Achieving Agents on the World Wide Web (2003)
Austin Tate, Je Dalton, John Levine, Alex Nixon
An important class of problems is related to performing activities, and the planning of future activity, The \doing of things " is at the heart of human endeavour. The WWW has primarily...
Task Achieving Agents on the World Wide Web (2003)
Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, John Levine, Alex Nixon
An important class of problems is related to performing activities, and the planning of future activity, The "doing of things " is at the heart of human endeavour. The WWW has...
The coalition agents experiment: Network-enabled coalition operations (2003)
Patrick Beautement, Michael Kirton, Jeffrey M Bradshaw, Niranjan Suri, Austin Tate, Mark Burstein
The coalition agents experiment: network-enabled coalition operations
Delivering Intelligent Planning Information to Mobile Devices Users (2003)
Natasha Queiroz Lino, Austin Tate, Clauirton Siebra, Jessica Chen-burger
The use of mobile devices is becoming increasingly more frequent. Although very limited, these devices now have capacities for running more advanced systems. Opportunities for developing applications...
Dynamic Agent Systems in the CoAX Binni 2002 Experiment (2003)
Steven Wark, Andrew Zschorn, Don Perugini, Austin Tate
The goal of the international CoAX (Coalition Agents eXperiment) program was to demonstrate how agent systems could be used to provide agile and flexible command and control systems for coalition...
Coalition Task Support using I-X and <I-N-C-A (2003)
Abstract. I-X is a research programme with a number of different aspects intended to create a well-founded approach to allow humans and computer systems to cooperate in the creation or modification...
Intentionally Blank ii Acknowledgements (2003)
Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton Aiai, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Andrzej Uszok Ihmc, Matthew Johnson, Hyuckchul Jung, ...
views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Defense
I-X: Task Support on the Semantic Web (2003)
Stephen Potter, Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton
Introduction The coordination of resource and activity to achieve some common objective is a key task within modern virtual organisations. The Semantic Web initiative promises to increase the number...
Enterprise Modelling: A Declarative Approach for FBPML (2002)
Chen-Burger, Y-H, Tate, Austin, Robertson, D
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CoAKTinG: Advanced Collaborative Technologies in the Grid (2002)
Shaum, Simon Buckingham, Roure, David De, Eisenstadt, Marc, Shadbolt, Nigel, Tate, Austin
CoAKTinG: Advanced Collaborative Technologies in the Grid (2002)
Shaum, Simon Buckingham, Roure, David De, Eisenstadt, Marc, Shadbolt, Nigel, Tate, Austin
CoAKTinG: Advanced Collaborative Technologies in the Grid (2002)
Shaum, Simon Buckingham, Roure, David De, Eisenstadt, Marc, Shadbolt, Nigel, Tate, Austin
I-P2 - Intelligent Process Panels to Support Coalition Operations (2002)
Tate, Austin, Dalton, J, Stader, J
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Enterprise Modelling: A Declarative Approach for FBPML (2002)
Chen-Burger, Dr. Yun-Heh, Tate, Prof. Austin, Robertson, Dr. Dave
Enterprise Modelling (EM) methods are well-recognised for their value in describing complex, informal domains in an organised structure. EM methods are used in practice, particularly during the early...
CoAKTinG: Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid (2002)
Buckingham Shum, Simon, De Roure, David, Eisenstadt, Marc, Shadbolt, Nigel, Tate, Austin
Grid infrastructures coupled with semantic web linkage and reasoning open up intriguing new possibilities for scientific collaboration. In this short paper, we outline the research agenda and...
CoAKTinG: Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid (2002)
Buckingham Shum, Simon, De Roure, David, Eisenstadt, Marc, Shadbolt, Nigel, Tate, Austin
Grid infrastructures coupled with semantic web linkage and reasoning open up intriguing new possibilities for scientific collaboration. In this short paper, we outline the research agenda and...
I-P2 - Intelligent Process Panels to Support Coalition Operations (2002)
Tate, Austin, Dalton, Jeff, Stader, Jussi
I-X is a research programme with a number of different aspects intended to create a well-founded approach to allow humans and computer systems to cooperate in the creation or modification of some...
Domain-Specific Criteria to Direct and Evaluate Planning Systems (2002)
Gil, Yolanda, Hoffman, Mark, Tate, Austin
This document is the result of a joint effort to understand what are relevant factors to consider when there are several possible courses of action (COAs) to accomplish a Non-combatant Evacuation...
CoAKTinG: Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid (2002)
Buckingham Shum, Simon, De Roure, David, Eisenstadt, Marc, Shadbolt, Nigel, Tate, Austin
Grid infrastructures coupled with semantic web linkage and reasoning open up intriguing new possibilities for scientific collaboration. In this short paper, we outline the research agenda and...
Coalition Agents Experiment: Multi-Agent Co-operation in an International Coalition Setting (2002)
Allsopp, D.N, Beautement, P, Bradshaw, J M, Durfee, E H, Kirton, M, Knoblock, C.A, ...
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Coalition Agents Experiment: Multi-Agent Co-operation in an International Coalition Setting (2002)
David N. Allsopp, Patrick Beautement, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Michael Kirton, Edmund H. Durfee, ...
Military Coalitions are examples of large-scale multi-faceted virtual organizations, which sometimes need to be rapidly created and flexibly changed as circumstances alter. The Coalition Agents...
Software Agents as Facilitators of Coherent Coalition Operations (2001)
Allsopp, D, Beautement, P, Bradshaw, J M, Carson, J, Kirton, M, Suri, N, ...
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I-X is a research programme with a number of different aspects intended to create a well-founded approach to allow humans and computer systems to cooperate in the creation or modification of some...
I-X and <I-N-C-A>: an Architecture and Related Ontology for Mixed-Initiative Synthesis Tasks (2001)
Abstract: I-X is a research programme with a number of different aspects intended to create a well-founded approach to allow humans and computer systems to cooperate in the creation or modification...
I-X and <I-N-C-A>: an Architecture and Related Ontology for Mixed-Initiative Synthesis Tasks (2001)
Abstract. I-X is a research programme with a number of different aspects intended to create a well-founded approach to allow humans and computer systems to cooperate in the creation or modification...
A Common Process Ontology for Process-Centred Organisations. Knowledge Based Systems (2000)
Stephen T. Polyak, Austin Tate
The world of business and organised work is changing. This change is driven by a shift of organisational focus away from individual fragmented tasks toward an examination of the holistic processes....
A Common Process Ontology for Process-Centred Organisations. Knowledge Based Systems (2000)
Stephen T. Polyak, Austin Tate
The world of business and organised work is changing. This change is driven by a shift of organisational focus away from individual fragmented tasks toward an examination of the holistic processes....
O-P 3 : Supporting the Planning Process using Open Planning Process Panels (2000)
John Levine, Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton
complicated business. It is a multiuser, multiagent collaboration in which teams of people must explore different options to synthesize a solution to given requirements. Specifically, the planning...
Using AI planning technology for army small unit operations (2000)
Austin Tate, John Levine, Peter Jarvis, Jeff Dalton
In this paper, we outline the requirements of a planning and decision aid to support US Army small unit operations in urban terrain and show how AI planning technologies can be exploited in that...
I-N-OVA> and <I-N-CA> - Representing Plans and other Synthesized Artifacts as a Set of (2000)
This paper presents an approach to representing and manipulating plans and other synthesised artifacts in the form of a set of constraints. The <i-n-ova> 1 (Issues – Nodes –...
A Common Process Ontology for Process-Centred Organisations. Knowledge Based Systems (2000)
Stephen T. Polyak, Austin Tate
The world of business and organised work is changing. This change is driven by a shift of organisational focus away from individual fragmented tasks toward an examination of the holistic processes....
Using Meta-Knowledge at the application level (1999)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Robertson, David, Tate, Austin
Ontologies have become popular in the Artificial Intelligence community as a way to standardise representation of domain knowledge. Despite their advocated use in areas such as knowledge sharing and...
Using Meta-Knowledge at the application level (1999)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Robertson, Dave, Tate, Austin
Ontologies have become popular in the Artificial Intelligence community as a way to standardise representation of domain knowledge. Despite their advocated use in areas such as knowledge sharing and...
Using Meta-Knowledge at the application level (1999)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Robertson, David, Tate, Austin
Ontologies have become popular in the Artificial Intelligence community as a way to standardise representation of domain knowledge. Despite their advocated use in areas such as knowledge sharing and...
Using Meta-Knowledge at the application level (1999)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Robertson, Dave, Tate, Austin
Ontologies have become popular in the Artificial Intelligence community as a way to standardise representation of domain knowledge. Despite their advocated use in areas such as knowledge sharing and...
Using Meta-Knowledge at the application level (1999)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Robertson, David, Tate, Austin
Ontologies have become popular in the Artificial Intelligence community as a way to standardise representation of domain knowledge. Despite their advocated use in areas such as knowledge sharing and...
Using Meta-Knowledge at the application level (1999)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Robertson, Dave, Tate, Austin
Ontologies have become popular in the Artificial Intelligence community as a way to standardise representation of domain knowledge. Despite their advocated use in areas such as knowledge sharing and...
AI Planning: Systems and Techniques. (1998)
Hendler, James, Tate, Austin, Drummond, Mark
This article, to appear in AI Magazine (Summer 1990), reviews work done in the area of Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems. The goal of this article is to familiarize the reader with some of the...
Spacecraft Command and control Using AI Planning Techniques. The O-Plan2 Project. (1998)
Tate, Austin, Drabble, Brian, Kirby, Richard
O-Plan2 (the Open Planning Architecture) provides a generic domain independent computational architecture suitable for command, planning and execution applications. The main contribution of the...
Tate, Austin, Dalton, Jeff, Levine, John
The project investigated multi-agent mixed initiative interaction between a "task assignment" or "command" agent and a planning agent. Each agent maintains an agenda of outstanding tasks they are...
Knowledge Engineering Window on Europe - Knowledge Foundation and Support Technologies (1998)
Kingston, John, Aitken, Stuart, Tate, Austin
This project brought knowledge and experience of European knowledge engineering methods and techniques to the HPKB program. Originally, this was expected to be done through briefings and training...
KSCO 2002: Second International Conference on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations (1998)
This document contains the final proceedings for the interdisciplinary conference KSCO-2002 which covered the following topics: Innovative theory and techniques for coalition formation and "virtual...
Using Shared Models of Activity for Coalition Task-Driven Cooperation (1998)
Tate, Austin, Dalton, Jeff, Levine, John, Stader, Jussi
Research covered in this report has primarily focused on the development of the Intelligent Technology Research Program (1-X) concepts and mixed-initiative human-centric multi-participant task...
Tate, Austin, Dalton, Jeff, Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., Uszok, Andrzej
The Coalition Search and Rescue Task Support (CoSAR-TS) has been a DARPA DAML Program project to provide advanced capabilities linking models of organizational structures, policies, and doctrines...
A., Knowledge Asset Road Maps (1998)
Ann Macintosh, Ian Filby, Austin Tate
This paper describes how AIAI has used the ideas and techniques behind Technology Road Maps in order to provide a framework for developing Knowledge Asset Road Maps to support knowledge management...
A., Knowledge Asset Road Maps (1998)
Ann Macintosh, Ian Filby, Austin Tate
This paper describes how AIAI has used the ideas and techniques behind Technology Road Maps in order to provide a framework for developing Knowledge Asset Road Maps to support knowledge management...
Capability representations for brokering: A survey (1998)
In this article we review knowledge representation formalisms that lend themselves to the representation of capabilities of intelligent agents. The aim of representing capabilities is, of course,...
Rationale in Planning: Causality, Dependencies and Decisions, Knowledge Engineering Review (1998)
Stephen T. Polyak, Austin Tate
Traditional approaches to plan representation focused on the generation of a sequence of actions and orderings. Knowledge rich models, which incorporate plan rationale, provide benefits to the...
Generation of Multiple Qualitatively Different Plan Options (1998)
Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, John Levine
Work is described which supports multi-agent mixed initiative interaction between a "task assignment " or "command " agent and a planning agent. Each agent...
A., Knowledge Asset Road Maps (1998)
A. Macintosh, I. Filby, A. Tate, Ann Macintosh, Ian Filby, Austin Tate
This paper describes how AIAI has used the ideas and techniques behind Technology Road Maps in order to provide a framework for developing Knowledge Asset Road Maps to support knowledge management...
TF Method: An Initial Framework for Modelling and Analysing Planning Domains (1998)
Austin Tate, Stephen T. Polyak, Peter Jarvis
Early work on the NONLIN and O-Plan projects indicated a need for a defined methodology which would guide users performing various roles in the acquisition and analysis of domain requirements for...
Generation of Multiple Qualitatively Different Plan Options (1998)
Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, John Levine
Work is described which supports multi-agent mixed initiative interaction between a "task assignment" or "command" agent and a planning agent. Each agent maintains an agenda of...
Capability Descriptions for Problem Solving Methods (1998)
Stuart Aitken, Ian Filby, John Kingston, Austin Tate
. This paper proposes a set of attributes which specify the capabilities of problem solving methods. This set is intended as a form of documentation for use in a library of problem solving methods...
A Planning Agent on the World Wide Web (1997)
Work is described which seeks to support multi-agent mixed initiative interaction between a \task assignment " or \command " agent and a planning agent 1. Each agent maintains an...
2.2 COA and Elements of Evaluation Matrix Editor:::::::::::::::::: 7 (1997)
Brian Drabble, Je Dalton, Austin Tate
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Repairing Plans On-the-Fly (1997)
Brian Drabble, Jeff Dalton, Austin Tate
Even with the most careful advance preparation, and even with inbuilt allowance for some degree of contingency, plans need to be altered to take into account execution circumstances and changes of...
Process Steps, Process Products, and System Capabilities (1997)
Brian Drabble, Terri Lydiard, Austin Tate, South Bridge
this report is to describe a generic modelling framework being developed to represent the steps at the process management level of the Air Campaign Planning acp domain. The process management level...
Multi-agent Planning via Mutually Constraining the Space of Behaviour (1997)
Work is described which seeks to support multiagent mixed initiative interaction between a "task assignment" or "command" agent and a planning agent 1 . Each agent maintains an...
Mixed Initiative Interaction in O-Plan (1997)
Work is described which seeks to support mixed initiative interaction between a "task assignment" or "command" agent and a planning agent. Each agent maintains an agenda of...
Repairing Plans On-the-fly (1997)
Brian Drabble, Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton
Even with the most careful advance preparation, and even with inbuilt allowance for some degree of contingency, plans need to be altered to take into account execution circumstances and changes of...
Process Steps, Process Products, and System Capabilities (1997)
Brian Drabble, Terri Lydiard, Austin Tate, South Bridge
this report is to describe a generic modelling framework being developed to represent the steps at the process management level of the Air Campaign Planning acp domain
Repairing Plans On-the-fly (1997)
Brian Drabble, Je Dalton, Austin Tate
Even with the most careful advance preparation, and even with inbuilt allowance for some degree of contingency, plans need to be altered to take into account execution circumstances and changes of...
Tate, Austin, Drabble, Brian, Dalton, Jeff
The 0-Plan research has achieved a clearer understanding of the components necessary in a flexible planning system and has shown how such components can be combined in a systems integration...
Brian Drabble, Terri Lydiard, Austin Tate
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O-Plan: a Knowledge-Based Planner and its Application to Logistics (1996)
Austin Tate, Brian Drabble, Je Dalton
O-Plan is a command, planning and control architecture with an open modular structure intended to allow experimentation on, or replacement of, various components. The research is seeking to determine...
Representing Plans as a Set of Constraints – The <I-N-OVA> Model (1996)
This paper presents an approach to representing and manipulating plans based on a model of plans as a set of constraints. The <i-n-ova> 1 (Issues { Nodes { Orderings/Variables/Auxiliary)modelis...
Representing Plans as a Set of Constraints - the I-N-OVA Model (1996)
This paper presents an approach to representing and manipulating plans based on a model of plans as a set of constraints. The !i-n-ova? 1 (Issues -- Nodes -- Orderings/Variables/Auxiliary) model is...
Towards a Plan Ontology (1996)
This paper describes inputs to various international standardisation efforts for process and plan interchange. Our approach takes a top down perspective. It seeks to add the small but vital overview...
Air Campaign Planning Workflow Process Products (1996)
Brian Drabble, Austin Tate, South Bridge
this report is to describe the process objects and products e.g. orders, documents, reports, letters, informal communications, etc, which are produced, used, modified or consumed by the steps in the...
CommonKADS Models for Knowledge Based Planning (1996)
John Kingston, Nigel Shadbolt, Austin Tate, South Bridge
The CommonKADS methodology is a collection of structured methods for building knowledge based systems. A key component of CommonKADS is the library of generic inference models which can be applied to...
O-Plan Tasking Specification (1996)
Brian Drabble, Jeff Dalton, Austin Tate, South Bridge
this report is to describe the task and option management capabilities being developed for the O-Plan system to allow it to be used in a mip framework to support Air Campaign Planning (acp). During...
Don't leave Your Plans on the Shelf (1995)
eld of AI planning started o well. Over 25 years ago there was an AI planning system based on well-founded concepts that could generate plans for an automated robot and modify those plans in the face...
O-Plan Knowledge Source Framework (1995)
South Bridge, Edinburgh Eh Hn, Austin Tate
ARPA-RL/O-Plan/TR/21 Version 1
Brian Drabble, Yolanda Gil, Austin Tate
In producing plans, human planners take into account a variety of criteria that guide their decisions. Besides constraints imposed by the domain itself, these criteria often express preferences among...
The Enterprise Tool Set -- An Open Enterprise Architecture (1995)
project is establishing a generic framework within which enterprise tools can be used to assist users in their tasks. It is based on an Enterprise ontology which establishes shared terminology for...
Open planning, scheduling and constraint management architectures (1995)
The development of open planning and scheduling systems seeks to (i) support incremental extension and change, and (ii) facilitate communication between processing agents (both computer and human)....
Open planning, scheduling and constraint management architectures (1995)
The development of open planning and scheduling systems seeks to (i) support incremental extension and change, and (ii) facilitate communication between processing agents (both computer and human)....
realistic plan representations as needed for real problem solving, and can improve the analysis that is possible for production planning systems. 2 Representing Plans as a Set of Constraints A plan...
O-Plan's PlanWorld Viewers (1995)
The user interface to the O-Plan planning system seeks to differentiate the various roles played by users in systems which support command, planning and control functions. Appropriate support is...
Open planning, scheduling and constraint management architectures (1995)
Howard Beck, Austin Tate, South Bridge
The development of open planning and scheduling systems seeks to (i) support incremental extension and change, and (ii) facilitate communication between processing agents (both computer and human)....
Integrating Constraint Management into an AI Planner (1995)
O-Plan is a command, planning and control architecture which has an open modular structure intended to allow experimentation on or replacement ofvarious components. The research is seeking to isolate...
Open planning, scheduling and constraint management architectures (1995)
The development of open planning and scheduling systems seeks to (i) support incremental extension and change, and (ii) facilitate communica-tion between processing agents (both computer and human)....
Brian Drabble, Yolanda Gil, Austin Tate
In producing plans, human planners takeinto accountavariety of criteria that guide their decisions. Besides constraints imposed by the domain itself, these criteria often express preferences among...
O-Plan's PlanWorld Viewers (1995)
Austin Tate, Brian Drabble, South Bridge
The user interface to the O-Plan planning system seeks to di erentiate the various roles played by users in systems which support command, planning and control functions. Appropriate support is o...
Austin Tate, Brian Drabble, Je Dalton
Contract
A plan is represented as a set of constraints of three principal types. To re ect the three main types of constraint identi ed and their di erentiation in the model, the constraint set for a plan is...
Distributed Scheduling Framework (1994)
Carla P. Gomes, Austin Tate, Lyn Thomas
A distributed problem solving approach to job shop scheduling is described in this paper. The approach views the system as an Organisation. Agents are assigned di erent roles and functions depending...
Distributed Scheduling Framework (1994)
Carla P. Gomes, Austin Tate, Lyn Thomas
A distributed problem solving approach to job shop scheduling is described in this paper. The approach views the system as an Organisation. Agents are assigned di erent roles and functions depending...
Synthesizing Protection Monitors from Causal Structure (1994)
Protection monitors synthesized from plan causal structure provide execution systems with information necessary to detect potential failures early during execution. By detecting early, the execution...
O-Plan2: an Open Architecture for Command, Planning and Control (1994)
Austin Tate, Brian Drabble, Richard Kirby
O-Plan2 (the Open Planning Architecture) provides a generic domain independent computational architecture suitable for command, planning and execution applications. The main contribution of the...
Domain-specific criteria to direct and evaluate planning systems (1994)
Yolanda Gil, Mark Hoffman, Austin Tate
This document is the result of a joint effort to understand what are relevant factors to consider when there are several possible courses of action (COAs) to accomplish a Noncombatant Evacuation...
Brian Drabble, Austin Tate, South Bridge
Resource reasoning has been at the heart of many of the successful ai based scheduling systems-- yet no attempt has been made to integrate the best techniques from scheduling with the best techniques...
Research into the generation of plans using knowledge based techniques is now maturing and finding practical application in the commercial, industrial and defence sectors. This has led to a rapid...
The Use of Condition Types to Restrict Search in an AI Planner (1994)
Austin Tate, Brian Drabble, Jeff Dalton, South Bridge
Condition satisfaction in planning has received a great deal of experimental and formal attention. A "Truth Criterion " lies at the heart of many planners and is critical to their...
Reasoning with Constraints within O-Plan2 (1994)
South Bridge, Austin Tate, Austin Tate, Brian Drabble, Brian Drabble, Jeff Dalton, ...
O-Plan2 is a command, planning and control architecture which has an open modular structure intended to allow experimentation on or replacement of various components. The research is seeking to...
A Distributed Scheduling Framework (1994)
Carla Gomes Austin, Carla P. Gomes, Austin Tate, Lyn Thomas
A distributed problem solving approach to job shop scheduling is described in this paper. The approach views the system as an Organisation. Agents are assigned different roles and functions depending...
Mixed Initiative Planning in O-Plan2 (1994)
South Bridge, Austin Tate, Austin Tate
The model of Mixed Initiative Planning that can be supported by the O-Plan2 architecture is the mutual constraining of a set of alternative partial plans for some task set. This paper describes the...
Reasoning with Constraints within O-Plan2 (1994)
South Bridge, Austin Tate, Austin Tate, Brian Drabble, Brian Drabble, Je Dalton, ...
O-Plan2 is a command, planning and control architecture which has an open modular structure intended to allow experimentation on or replacement ofvarious components. The research is seeking to...
The O-Plan constraint associator (1994)
Jeff Dalton, Brian Drabble, Austin Tate
O-Plan2 is a command, planning and control architecture which has an open modular structure intended to allow experimentation on or replacement of various components. The research is seeking to...
Resource reasoning has been at the heart of many of the successful ai based scheduling systems -- yet no attempt has been made to integrate the best techniques from scheduling with the best...
Domain-specific criteria to direct and evaluate planning systems (1994)
Yolanda Gil, Mark Ho, Austin Tate
This document is the result of a joint e ort to understand what are relevant factors to consider when there are several possible courses of action (COAs) to accomplish a Noncombatant Evacuation...
O-Plan2: an Open Architecture for Command, Planning and Control (1994)
Austin Tate, Brian Drabble, Richard Kirby
O-Plan2 (the Open Planning Architecture) provides a generic domain independent computational architecture suitable for command, planning and execution applications. The main contribution of the...
The Use of Condition Types to Restrict Search in an AI Planner (1994)
Austin Tate, Brian Drabble, Je Dalton, South Bridge
Condition satisfaction in planning has received a great deal of experimental and formal attention. A\Truth Criterion " lies at the heart of many planners and is critical to their...
Research into the generation of plans using knowledge based techniques is now maturing and nding practical application in the commercial, industrial and defence sectors. This has led to a rapid...
Mixed Initiative Planning in O-Plan2 1 Mixed Initiative Planning in O-Plan2 (1994)
The model of Mixed Initiative Planning that can be supported by the O-Plan2 architecture is the mutual constraining of a set of alternative partial plans for some task set. This paper describes the...
Glen A. Reece, Austin Tate, David I. Brown, Mark Hoffman, Rebecca E. Burnard
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Authority Management - Coordination between Task Assignment, Planning and Execution (1993)
The O-Plan2 Open Planning Architecture allows for three separate agents for Task Assignment, Planning and Execution. Each O-Plan2 agent maintains a separate Plan State which consists of the...
As realistic systems are built and commercial toolkits are created for planning and scheduling applications, it becomes increasingly important that modularisation of these "standard"...
A Domain Description Language for Job-Shop Scheduling (1993)
Howard Beck Ken, Ken Currie, Austin Tate
As part of the tosca project undertaken for Hitachi Limited, the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute at the University of Edinburgh has produced a Domain Description Language for job-shop...
A Domain Description Language for Job-Shop Scheduling (1993)
Howard Beck, Ken Currie, Austin Tate
As part of the tosca project undertaken for Hitachi Limited, the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute at the University of Edinburgh has produced a Domain Description Language for job-shop...
Authority Management - Coordination between Task Assignment, Planning and Execution (1993)
The O-Plan2 Open Planning Architecture allows for three separate agents for Task Assignment, Planning and Execution. Each O-Plan2 agentmaintains a separate Plan State which consists of the...
As realistic systems are built and commercial toolkits are created for planning and scheduling applications, it becomes increasingly important that modularisation of these "standard"...
Glen A. Reece, Austin Tate, David I. Brown, Mitre Corporation, Mark Hoffman, Rebecca E. Burnard
Version 2.0
O-plan: the open planning architecture (1991)
Ken Currie, Austin Tate, South Bridge
O-Plan is an AI planner based on previous experience with the Nonlin planner and its derivatives. Nonlin and other similar planning systems had limited control architectures and were only partially...
O-Plan2: Choice Ordering Mechanisms in an AI Planning Architecture (1990)
O-Plan2 is an AI planning architecture which supports research into a number of aspects of planning, scheduling and control. It is based on earlier work on the O-Plan System which was directed...
Coordinating the Activities of a Planner and an Execution Agent (1989)
We have defined a research programme that will explore the link between planning and exe-cution systems. A simple scenario has been defined in which we have a very capable off-line planning system...
PROJECT PLANNING USING A HIERARCHIC NQN-"LINEAR PLANNER (1976)
University of Edinburgh We describe work on a project aimed at producing an interactive program for the construction of project networks (e.g. for house build-ing tasks). To do this we have developed...
The PIF Process Interchange Format and Framework
Jintae Lee, Michael Gruninger, Yan Jin, Thomas Malone, Austin Tate, Gregg Yost, ...
This document provides the specification of the Process Interchange Format (PIF) version 1.1. The goal of this work is to develop an interchange format to help automatically exchange process...
TECHNIQUES- THE 0-PLAN2 PROJECT
Plan Project, Northrup Fowler %i, John A. Graniero, Austin Tate, Austin Tate, Brian Drabble, ...
(NTIS). At NTIS it will be releasable to the general public, including foreign nations.