Increasing the Efficiency Function and Scope of Plan Management Agents

Abstract

As technology for automated plan generation has matured, there has been increased interest in techniques for managing plans, i.e., for tracking, updating, dispatching, and revising them in dynamic, uncertain environments. This project focused on extending computational techniques for plan management so as to 1) increase the efficiency of processing so that large sets of plans can be managed; 2) augment the functionality of the plan management systems to make them more useful; and 3) broaden the scope of plan management algorithms so that they can be used in a wider set of domains. A particular emphasis was on managing plans with richly expressive temporal constraints, and thus significant attention was given to developing efficient algorithms for temporal constraint reasoning.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA426744

Entities

People

  • Martha E. Pollack

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Consistency
  • Efficiency
  • Executives
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Models
  • Monitoring
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Prototypes
  • Reasoning
  • Uncertainty

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Systems Analysis and Design