Artform: Planning and Scheduling


Research into Planning and Scheduling in Artform has steadily increased over the last few years, with projects supported by the EPSRC, the EU, the National Air Traffic Services and the Government of Pakistan. The projects involve both fundamental and applied research, and encompass symbolic and subsymbolic AI, statistical and OR techniques. Present and recent researchers include Zahid Hussain, Michael Ingleby, Blaga Iordanova, Diane Kitchin, Donghong Liu, Lee McCluskey, Julie Porteous, Beth Richardson, Toni Roome, Steve Scott, Ron Simpson and Weihong Zhao.

Artform is a member node in the EU-funded PLANET initiative, the European Network of Excellence in Planning. Our node is responsible for looking after PLANET's Knowledge Engineering Technical Co-ordination Unit.

Research into Planning and Scheduling forms part of the School's Artform Group .

Publications

Click here for some recent publications

Click here for some recent talks

Our Planning-related Websites:

**FORTHCOMING EVENT**
ICAPS 2005 Competition in Knowledge Engineering for Planning

The GIPO tool for engineering planning domain models

A comprehensive set of Planning software resources from around the world

The Knowledge Engineering for Planning PLANET home page

The PLANFORM homepage, a collaborative project aimed at the synthesis of Planning tools

Research Projects:

PLANFORM: An Open Environment for Planning

Funded by the EPSRC and supported by NATS UK Ltd and CogSys Ltd. In collaboration with the Universities of Durham and Salford.

The Application of Theor y Refinement Techniques to the Repair of Planning Domain Models

Funded by the EPSRC.

Efficient consistency checking for applied planning systems

Funded by the University of Huddersfield.

A statistical comparison of solution quality from automatic planning heuristics

Funded by the University of Huddersfield and the Goverment of Pakistan.

Object Centred HTN Planning

Funded by the University of Huddersfield.

An investigation into ways of achieving more flexible and adaptable, artificial intelligence based, nurse rostering systems

Funded by the University of Huddersfield.