Engineer's Approach to the Application of Knowledge Based Planning and SchedulingTechniques to Logistics

摘要

The 0-Plan research has achieved a clearer understanding of the componentsnecessary in a flexible planning system and has shown how such components can be combined in a systems integration architecture. The work has determined improved ways to restrict search in a planner by using the knowledge available from modeling an application domain, and it has developed a better characterization of plans as sets of activity constraints, opening up many possibilities for richer distributed, cooperative, and mixed-initiative planning systems in the future. The project has created a prototype implementation and has demonstrated it on a class of realistic applications.