European Network of Excellence in AI Planning From PLANET to PLANET II Susanne Biundo University of Ulm, Germany

Motivation for PLANET The initial state of PLANET High quality standards in European P&S research Low awareness of the technology in Europe Collaboration mostly on person-to-person bases Few pan-European efforts on joint R&D projects The US DARPA/Rome Laboratory P&S initiative

General Aims of PLANET Build a co-ordinated framework to support P&S research, development, and technology transfer in Europe Encourage and support pan-European co-operation between research groups and industry Promote technology transfer through the early involvement of industrial partners Co-ordinate the training and exchange of researchers and people from industry and administration Provide an information infrastructure and a representative source of expertise

Achievements of PLANET (1) PLANET created a common framework and infrastructure to support pan-European research, development, and technology transfer Increase of mutual awareness between European research groups in academia and industry Involvement of industrial partners Increase of awareness of the technology outside the field (?) Various kinds of meetings Exchange Information infrastructure

Development of the Network 65 nodes in 14 countries - 16 industrial companies 7 SMEs - 16 research centres - 33 universities 10 associated members - end-user organisations - consultancy companies - software vendors

Achievements of PLANET (2) PLANET concentrated its work on a number of areas of particular interest maintaining responsiveness - new technological developments - needs of network members and community maintaining continuity - focused and goal-directed work Technical Co-ordination Units as the core operating initiatives

TCUs of PLANET Aerospace Applications Amedeo Cesta Tim Grant Workflow Management Paul Kearney Robot Planning Malik Ghallab Knowledge Engineering Lee McCluskey Intelligent Manufacturing Ruth Aylett Dynamic Scheduling Simon DeGivry Identification of areas according to current needs, opportunities, and critical mass among network members

Achievement s of PLANET (3) It reflects and identifies the current state of the technology recent developments relations to other fileds and (TCU) areas problems and deficiencies w.r.t. real application requirements issues to be addressed in order to achieve an effective and rapid transfer of the technology directions for potential exploitations application-driven improvements of methodologies and techniques development plans for focused actions PLANET produced a comprehensive road map

Network Activities (1) Organisation of 20 TCU workshops Initiation and organisation of the International Summer School on AI Planning Sponsoring of P&S conferences Support of cross-site visits Support of open workshops at conferences Organisation of general network meetings

Network Activities (2) Technology Information Days - An offer to people form industrial companies and authorities Overview of the technology Demonstration of successful industrial applications of planning and scheduling Reports on increased profitability and responsiveness

PLANET II Develop information society technologies to enable workers and enterprises to increase their competitiveness in the global market place improvement of the quality of the individual’s working life freedom from many constraints on working methods and organisation Key R&D requirements include development of novel architectures and solutions for interoperability, scalability, customisability, dependability adoption of user centred design principles PLANET II is more consequently settled within the IST Key Action II New Methods of Work and Electronic Commerce

General Aims of PLANET II PLANET II will build upon the achievements of PLANET continue many of PLANET’s activities in –research and development –technology transfer –training and exchange –providing an information infrastructure take up additional initiatives contribute to the KA II work programme –e-work systems: new work place designs,... –knowledge management: sharing and delivery of knowledge,... –organisation: team-work, workflow, new services,...

Work packages Research and Development Co-ordination Malik Ghallab, Lee McCluskey 1 Training and Exchange Sam Steel, Susanne Biundo 4 Technology Transfer and Communication Ruth Aylett, Tim Grant, Brian Drabble 2 Technical Co-ordination Units Amedeo Cesta, Alfredo Milani 3 Information Infrastructure and Management Susanne Biundo, Bernd Schattenberg 5

WP5: Infrastructure and Management edition of the newsletter, production of promotion material construction and maintenance of a P&S bibliography extension and maintenance of the PLANET Website moderation of the mailinglist external contacts and co-operations network administration and co-ordination organisation of the internal evaluation co-ordination with the European Commission

TCUs of PLANET II Aerospace Applications Amedeo Cesta Tim Grant Workflow Management Daniel Borrajo Robot Planning Malik Ghallab Knowledge Engineering Lee McCluskey Intelligent Manufacturing Ruth Aylett On-line Planning and Scheduling Gerard Verfaillie Web-based Applications Alfredo Milani

Network Co-ordinator: Susanne Biundo Management Structure Network Executive Committee Ruth AylettSusanne Biundo Daniel BorrajoAmedeo Cesta Brian DrabbleMalik Ghallab Tim GrantLee McCluskey Alfredo Milani Sam Steel Gerard Verfaille Network Administrator: Bernd Schattenberg

Budget and Funding Policy PLANET II received a budget of Euro per year Budget breakdown for one year –network meetings and workshops: Euro –cross-site visits, review meetings, etc. : Euro –conferences, open workshops, etc. : Euro –summer school : Euro –special tasks: Euro –management: Euro –administration: Euro PLANET is required to only partly fund participation in its events

Deliverables No. Name WP PM Type Month D1 Planning Software Website 3 Repository online D2 Software Catalogue, Website 3 Case Studies online D3 Newsletter Issue Magazine 4 D4 Project Presentation 5 - Website 4 D5 Summer School 4 - Report, 6 Proceed......

Development of the Network 2 47 nodes in 14 countries - 7 industrial companies 1 SMEs - 13 research centres - 26 universities (10 associated members - end-user organisations - consultancy companies - software vendors)

Conclusion Strengthen our community include “all” groups Identify challenges and drive research road maps, scientific working programmes contribute to KA II Identify new applications in industrial and administrative sectors approach other communities Implementation of PLANET’s ambitious work plan requires help by all members