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SCS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
4:00 PM - Wean Hall 7500
3:45 PM Distinguished Donuts - Outside the Hall
Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence
2005 Award Presentation and Lectures
Stephen F. Smith
Research Professor
Director, Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory
Execution-Driven Planning and Scheduling TechnologiesAdvances in sensing technologies now provide unprecedented ability to
obtain and maintain real-time information on the location and status of
materials and resources over time. In application areas as diverse as
supply chain management, transportation planning and disaster relief it
is now truly possible to base planning, scheduling and logistics
decisions on actual execution state, offering the possibility for much
more informed and responsive organizational decision-making. Yet, most
contemporary planning and scheduling tools are not designed for such
continuous, �real-time� operations and are not able to take advantage of
execution data streams. In this talk, I describe work toward a new class
of /execution�driven/ planning and scheduling technologies. These
technologies combine two key ideas: (1) the use of dynamic, incremental
search techniques, which promote anytime response to evolving execution
circumstances and enable planning to keep pace with execution, and (2)
the use of flexible plan and schedule representations, which encapsulate
execution contingencies and serve to insulate and localize re-planning
processes. Because of their inherent incremental nature, execution
driven planning and scheduling technologies extrapolate naturally to
multi-agent planning and scheduling contexts. They also integrate
flexibly with user-imposed constraints and decisions. I will summarize
current research progress and results in the design of such systems, and
identify outstanding technical challenges.
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