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 applications. It has been deployed as a planning service accessible over the World Wide Web since 1994 and has provided an HTTP interface to users and programs since 1997. It continues to be accessible as...

Cooperative groups, of which the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group is one example, conduct national clinical trials that often involve the use of radiation therapy. In preparation for such a trial, the cooperative group prepares a protocol to define the goals of the trial, the rationale for its design, and the details of the treatment procedure to be followed. The Radiological Physics Center (RP...

We describe BARNACLE: a cooperative interface to an inductive theorem prover. The cooperative nature of the BARNACLE interface is made possible by proof planning. Proof planning is a technique for guiding the search for a proof in automatic theorem proving. Common patterns of reasoning in proofs are identified and represented computationa.lly as proof plans. These proof plans are then used to g...

In this paper we examine, how the benefits of Supply Chain Management, as announced by the literature and widely accepted, can simulatively be proven. We first present selected results of a survey conducted on the European automotive industry, which show an evident need for transparency, in terms of the quantification of the added-value of Supply Chain Management. For this purpose we introduce ...

The cyclical economic downturn in the United States has forced many Extension administrators to rethink and adjust services and programming. The Cooperative Extension System (CES), the organization primarily responsible for governmental Extension work in the United States, at Iowa State University responded to this economic downturn by restructuring its organization from county based to a regio...

Many organizations have implemented Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, hoping to use the information integration these systems provide to improve process efficiency and effectiveness. In particular, ERP systems may be instrumental in realizing Cooperative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR). In this paper, we present an experimental approach that will be used to assess the ...

This paper focuses on the optimal motion planning problem for cooperative aerial manipulation. We use the rapidly exploring random trees star (RRT*) algorithm that finds feasible paths quickly and optimizes them. For local planning within RRT*, we developed a trajectory planner using Bezier-curve which utilizes the differential flatness property of the aerial manipulator. Time-parameterization ...

Recent years have seen rapidly growing interest in the development of networks of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (U.A.V.s), as aerial sensor networks for the purpose of coordinated monitoring, surveillance, and rapid emergency response. This has triggered a great deal of research in higher levels of planning and control, including collaborative sensing and exploration, synchronized motion pl...

We introduce a principled method for multi-robot coordination based on a general model (termed a MacDec-POMDP) of multi-robot cooperative planning in the presence of stochasticity, uncertain sensing, and communication limitations. A new MacDec-POMDP planning algorithm is presented that searches over policies represented as finite-state controllers, rather than the previous policy tree represent...

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 group issues, the planning and execution of activities and the checking of constraints. Panels can be connected to other panels, and also to a range of services, agents and other cooperative working support tool...