http://www.planet-noe.org

European Networkof Excellence in

AI Planning

Technical Coordination Unit on Planning and Scheduling for the Web.

Alfredo MilaniUniversity of Perugia, Italy

TCU Goals and Motivations.collecting and co-ordinating PLANET nodes active in the application of P&S to:

• web based systems

• web based services

• relevant components of the new information technologies

TCU Goals and Motivations.exploring and pointing out

the potential role of P&S as a key factor in the framework of the technologies for the global new IS

P&S convey the flexibility typical of knowledge based technologies in support of: new modalities of work, production, commerce, entertainment and educationrelevant issues:autonomy, adaptivity, distribution, mobility, automatic collaborative support

TCU Goals and Motivations.Web as a Trasparent MediaTraditional P&S systems use the web as a communication media, they act via the web

Web as an EnvironmentWeb entities and Web services are the object of P&S systems, actions and plans on the web are pursuing goals on web entities

TCU Goals and Motivations.Web as an Environment

• components for web servers (goal guided synthesis/maintenance of web sites)

• components for supporting online services ( scheduling load distribution to online assistance operators, activation of assistance/emergency chain, online configuration of products)

• generation/monitoring of supply chain (scheduling, logistics, resources management)

• user support, user adaptive services (e.g. automatic synthesis monitoring for personalized educational systems, personalized newspapers);

• P&S components of softbot, (e.g. softbot for automatic auctioning, stockbots etc.)

• online P&S services ( general or specialized tools which plan or schedule on demand, e.g. for checking/rescheduling activities)

TCU Goals and Motivations.The TCU aims not only a Web focus but also:

•Collaborative systems•Distributed and mobile environments•New media/devices

TCU ActivitiesWorkshop on Automated P&S in New Methods of Electronic, Mobile, and Collaborative Work, co-chaired L.McCluskey, A.Milani Toledo, Spain, 11th September 2001 co-sponsored by ECP

8 talks, 30 participants

demos, panel discussion

TCU Kickoff Meeting Toledo, Spain, 11th September 2001

20 participant nodes

TCU Workshop & Panel• Travel Assistant (J.L.Ambite, ISI, California) P&S based dynamic integration of web sources (airfares, parking fares,timetables, weather conditions etc )

• MEXAR (A. Oddi, CNR, Italy )

mixed-initiative P&S, collaborative development of schedules for spacecraft mission plan

• Business Process Re-engineering (M.D.Moreno, Univ.Alcala, Spain )

organisations restructure their business processes wrt e-business models

• AI Software and e-commerce (R.Benjamins, Int.Soft.Comp., Spain)

online banking agents and shopping agents reasoning on commercial goals

• BT Workforce Management System (B. Laithwaite, APSolve, UK)scheduling British Telecom workforce activities in a mobile environment

TCU RoadMap preliminary guidelines:

•assembling and configuring existing primitive services on the web for use in P&S

•development of a common semantics for web sites oriented to P&S ( link to XML technologies, planning vocabularies, emerging wrapper technologies)

•development of models and techniques in distributed, mobile, collaborative P&S

WebTCU Actions

establishing a TCU Web site• as place for announcements/info exchange among PLANET members

collection of demos & applications of WEB P&S• not only a showcase but online demo/applications• applications and resources within and outside the network

WebTCU Actions

definition of the TCU roadmap

• as the main guideline for the TCU• starting by the next TCU Meeting May/June 2002

WebTCU Actions

promoting nodes participation and support to e-commerce conferences and events:

• sponsorship of side events (e.g. workshop, panels, seminars etc.) • short info announces about WebTCU and PLANET• reports from IT and P&S conferences to be disseminated among PLANET members, focusing on what is going on/emerging in the field

WebTCU Actions

Actions for involving Web & New IT companies:

• target for technology transfer• source of relevant issues from marketplace to research

Information Days with focused homogeneus target audience

info announces at specialised conferences

WebTCU Members

• growing interest in memberships• attracting new PLANET members, also from

outside EU (USA, Eastern Europe)

Currently:

• Promoting participations of Web and New IT companies

Special actions for:

WebTCU Deliverables

• Proceedings of the ECP/Planet Workshop on Automated P&S in New Methods of Electronic, Mobile, and Collaborative Work, edited by L.McCluskey, A.Milani

• Workshop Report, edited by L.McCluskey• TCU Web site at www.planet-noe.org• TCU related articles/reports forthcoming publication

on PLANET Newsletter (2nd ICEC,Vienna, Oct 2001)

http://www.planet-noe.org

European Networkof Excellence in

AI Planning

Technical Coordination Unit on Planning and Scheduling for the Web.

Alfredo MilaniUniversity of Perugia, Italy