1. http://www.planet-noe.org European Network of Excellence in AI Planning Project Overview Recent Developments & Future Work Susanne Biundo University of Ulm

2. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo General Objectives increase awareness, visibility, and international collaboration promote the orientation of research towards application requirements support high-quality training and teaching promote the transfer of the technology

3. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo WP1: Synergy in research and development WP2: Technology transfer and communication WP3: Technical co-ordination units WP4: Training and exchange WP5: Information infrastructure and management Work Packages

4. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Technical Co-ordination Units Aerospace Applications Workflow Management Robot Planning Knowledge Engineering Intelligent Manufacturing On-line Planning and Scheduling Web-based Applications

5. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Pan-European Impact PLANET II has a considerable impact on the organisation of pan-European collaboration. increased awareness and collaboration between European planning groups approach by ESA to regard PLANET II as an ESA Competence Network formation of a Spanish national Network of Excellence on Planning, Scheduling, and Temporal Reasoning

6. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo International Presence PLANET II raised the international weight of European P&S. organisation of AIPS’02 in Toulouse formation of ICAPS council and steering committee organisation of ICAPS’03 in Trento

7. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Co-ordination of Research PLANET II organised and supported six technical work- shops and supported the AIPS’02 planning competition. four workshops at AIPS’02, April 23-24, Toulouse AI Planning and Scheduling for Autonomy in Space Applications, July 6, Manchester Web-based Resources and Knowledge Interchange Formats for AI P&S, July 23, Lyon, co-located with ECAI’02

8. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Awareness and Visibility PLANET II promoted pan-European collaboration across community borders and between academia and industry. participation in the European Commission’s EoI exercise I-PLANS Dyna-Tool PLANSERVE I4GMES AMIR participation in the E2002 and ICT&P conferences in Prague and Primorsko (Bulgaria)

9. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo PLANET II attracted students and young researchers to the field. contribution to the AIPS’02 scholarship programme (PLANET II, AAAI, NASA) organisation of the 2nd International Summer School on AI Planning and Scheduling doctoral consortium at ICAPS’03 3rd summer school Training and Teaching

10. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Information Infrastructure PLANET II improved its information supply and infrastructure as a service to the community. construction of research website construction of case study repository implementation of new PLANET website structure and layout

11. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Internal Evaluation 40% of member nodes participated main interests technical aspects applications of P&S technology (75%) benefits for members information about latest news in the area workshops, conferences, summer schools exchange with other nodes knowledge of real world planning problems

12. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Internal Evaluation main sources for news in the field

13. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Internal Evaluation intended contributions

14. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Internal Evaluation Topics large-scale (production) scheduling real-world applications

15. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Internal Evaluation High interest

16. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Internal Evaluation Topics actual applications of planning (rather than of scheduling) applications in traffic management/planning

17. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Internal Evaluation Topics developing marketing materials on P&S and delivering them to potential industrial users integration of planning and scheduling techniques

18. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Internal Evaluation Topics combination of AI and OR techniques constraint and mathematical programming in production p&s mixed-initiative, interactive p&s multi-agent scheduling real-life, large-scale (production) scheduling cognitive planning

19. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Readiness to Contribute High acceptance of our media

20. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Project presentation new design and structure of project web site common look-and-feel of all pages complete information site workshop and summer school proceedings reports, presentations newsletter issues pointers to repositories and events Information Infrastructure cont.

21. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Information Infrastructure cont. PLANET News realisation of new concept magazine-like : articles, reports, announcements, challenge problems,... ISSN : 1619-0204 TCU-specific leaflets, posters 150 subscribers to PLANET II mailinglist

22. General Network Meeting, Ulm, Feb. 20/21, 2003, S. Biundo Future Work Complete our work in PLANET road maps curriculum exploitation plan Continue our collaboration within FP6