Enabling Agility through Coordinating Temporally Constrained Planning Agents

In crisis response, hierarchical organizations are being replaced by dynamic assemblies of autonomous agents that promise more agility. However, these autonomous agents might cause a decrease in effectiveness when individually constructed plans for moderately-coupled tasks are not jointly feasible. Existing coordination techniques can be applied...

Plan Repair: A framework and a new heuristic with applications to logistics

Planning can be a valuable tool for supporting a wide array of real-world problems, such as logistics, manufacturing and control. However, these applications are often highly dynamic, resulting in plans that require updating. In such situations, plan repair methods can be used to adapt the plan. In this paper, we propose a general framework for...