Planning for realtime event response management

Abstract

1. Evolution of Planning. A Brief History of Planning. Types of Domains Used In AI. Conventional Planners. Pure (Hard-Wired) Reaction. Classical Real-time Planners. Book Synopsis. 2. Subsuming Planning to Reaction. Minton's Utility Function. Insect Intelligence and Robotics: The Work of Rodney Brooks. Procedural Reasoning Systems. Situated Automata and Situated Agents. Disadvantages and Next Step. 3. Integration of Planning and Reaction. The Planning to Reaction Spectrum. The Contingency Space. The Need for Deciding Between Planning and Reaction. 4. Deciding at Planning Time. Alternative Approaches. Empirical Approach. Analytical Approach. The Need for Good Real-time Components. 5. Execution Time: Reacting, (Re)Planning and Deciding. Anytime Algorithms. Action-based Decision Trees. 6. Real-time Planning. Guaranteeing Temporal Adequacy. Building Guaranteed And Unguaranteed Plans. 7. Applications. A Language Framework for Describing Reactive Behaviors. Formalizing Reaction Decisions in Critical Domains for Pedagogical Purposes. 8. Conclusion. Integration of the Ideas. Language Development. Integration with Existing Technologies. Development of Hardware. Index.