Planning has belonged to fundamental areas of AI since its beginning and sessions on planning are an integral part of major AI conferences. By generating activities necessary to achieve some goal, planning is also closely related to scheduling that deals with allocation of activities to scarce resources. Although the planning and scheduling communities are somehow separated, both areas have int...

to promote the practical applications of planning technologies. Thus, a special session was devoted to describing the technological achievements of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)– Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative (ARPI). Also, two panels were convened to identify the areas that researchers should be looking into to make major a impact in the real world and to discuss t...

Within manufacturing, features have been widely accepted as useful concepts, and in particular they are used as an interface between CAD and CAPP systems. Previous research on feature recognition focus on the issues of intersecting features andmultiple interpretations, but do not address the problem of custom features representation. Representation of features is an important aspect for making ...

One important approach to enhancing software re-use is through the creation of large-scale software libraries. By modularizing functionality, many complex specialized applications can be built up from smaller reusable general purpose libraries. Consequently, many large software libraries have been formed for applications such as image processing and data analysis. However, knowing the requireme...

Scheduling doctors duties in a hospital are complicated and time-consuming tasks. The person responsible for creating a duty timetable is facing one major problem when allocating doctors to time periods: the agreement between several constraining (and often mutually excluding) requirements must be found. In this paper a solution methodology for the monthly duty assignment of doctors is presente...

The electronics computer-aided process-planning (ECAPP) system is a rule-and frame-based generative process-planning system for the assembly of electronic components onto printed circuit boards (or modu-less). ECAPP uses expert process-engineering knowledge, a manufacturing plant's specific process capabilities, and product information from a computer-aided design (CAD) database to generate all...

From the field of artificial intelligence (AI) there is a growing stream of technology capable of being embedded in software that will reshape the way we interact with our environment in our everyday lives. This ‘AI software’ is often used to tackle more mundane tasks that are otherwise dangerous or meticulous for a human to accomplish. One particular area, explored in this paper, is for AI sof...

The invited speakers at the conference presented some of their latest research and ideas on intelligent planning and execution: Drew McDermott from Yale University gave the first talk, entitled “Bottom-Up Knowledge Representation,” and David Smith from In recent years, AI planning and scheduling has emerged as a technology critical to production management, space systems, the internet, and mili...

Large container ports around the world are major hubs in the global cargo transport system. A container stack is a type of temporary store where containers await further transport by truck, train or vessel. The main efficiency problem for an individual stack is to ensure easy access to containers at the expected time of transfer. In this paper, we propose a planning tool for finding the best co...

The paper dea ls w i t h a number of problems invo lved In p l a n n i n g a r o b o t ' s a c t i v i t y . A f o r m a l i z e d statement o f the p lann ing problem Is proposed and the t h e o r e t i c a l p r i n c i p l e s o f des ign and r e quirements to s t r u c t u r e o f the problem environment models and p l a n n i n g a l g o r i t h m s are d i scussed . A problem e n v i r o ...