"Coordinating Planning Activity and Information Flow in a Distributed Planning System"

10/14/1998: [time not recorded]
[location not recorded]

Abstract: Distributed SIPE (DSIPE) is a distributed planning system that provides decision support to human planners in a collaborative, continuous planning environment. The key contributions of our research on DSIPE are (1) constraint-based, consistent local views of the global plan that gives each planner a view of how other planners' subplans relate to their local planning decisions; (2) methods for automatically identifying and sharing relevant information among distributed planning agents; and (3) techniques for merging subplans that leverage the shared subplan structure to generate a complete, final plan. DSIPE is a fully implemented system, and has been demonstrated to end users in the maritime (U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps) planning community. In the talk, I will describe the DSIPE architecture and the maritime planning application domain. I will also briefly discuss the continuous planning aspects of the project (connecting the distributed planning system to an execution monitoring module). This is joint work with Michael Wolverton, SRI International.

About Marie desJardins: Marie desJardins is a senior computer scientist at SRI International. Her current research projects are in the areas of distributed planning and hybrid case-based/generative planning techniques, mixed-initiative knowledge acquisition methods for constructing Bayes nets, and performing task-based information routing in collaborative environments. Dr. desJardins was awarded a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992, where her dissertation presented a model for autonomous machine learning in probabilistic domains. She received her A.B. in engineering / computer science from Harvard University in 1985. She can be reached at SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park CA 94025; e-mail: marie@erg.sri.com; WWW: http://www.erg.sri.com/people/marie

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