Artificial Intelligence planning is a key problem solving technology currently being used in a variety of applications including military campaigns, robot navigation, airplane scheduling, and human computer interaction. The generation of plans courses of actions to achieve desired goals or perform specific tasks is a costly process, however. Developing methods to systematically reduce the searc...

The Air Force Institute of Technology [AFIT] provides master’s degree education to Air Force and Army Officers in various engineering fields. It is in a unique position to educate and perform research in the area of applications of artificial intelligence to military problems. Its two AI faculty members are the only military officers with Ph D’s in Artificial Intelligence. In the past two years...

Planning is an artificial intelligence problem with a wide range of real-world applications. Genetic algorithms, neural networks, and simulated annealing are heuristic search methods often used to solve complex optimization problems. In this paper, we propose a genetic approach to planning in the context of workflow management and process coordination on a heterogenous grid. We report results f...

held Sunday and Monday, July 22–23, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The program included the following thirteen workshops: (1) Acquiring Planning Knowledge via Demonstration; (2) Configuration; (3) Evaluating Architectures for Intelligence; (4) Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning; (5) ExplanationAware Computing; (6) Human Implications of Human-Robot Interaction; (7) Intelligent Tech...

Automated planning is a branch of artificial intelligence which deals with the computation of the best strategies of action sequences, typically for execution by machines or robots (Russell & Norvig, 2003). In general, the automated planning solutions are complex, combinatory and have to be searched in a multidimensional space. Solutions usually resort to iterative trial and error processes com...

Two major tasks in process management are the planning of a process and the coordination of its execution. Workflow management systems support and automate the coordination of a process, but planning the process remains a manual task. This paper argues that planning and coordination are closely interrelated and therefore solely automation of coordination can lead to problems concerning consiste...

Over fairly recent years the concept of an artificial sport trainer has been proposed in literature. This concept is based on computational intelligence algorithms. In this paper, we try to extend the artificial sports trainer by planning fitness training sessions that are suitable for athletes, especially during idle seasons when no competition takes place (e.g., winter). The bat algorithm was...