Planning for Real Time Event Response Management

Real-time intelligent agent technology offers companies and individuals unprecedented power in planning and reacting to market forces, competitors, and trends. This book explains the technology in-depth, and shows how it can be employed for maximum impact. Two leading artificial intelligence experts cover the key issues associated with real-time and reactive planning in intelligent agent systems. Start by understanding the domains -- from toy to real-world -- that have been used to develop and test planning systems. Walk through a detailed case study: a sample real-world, real-time domain covering flight planning. Compare systems that make decisions at planning and execution times, and identify a framework for deciding when to plan and when to react. Understand leading approaches such as Brooks' subsumption architecture, Rosenschein/Kaelbling's situated automata; Schoppers' universal planning, and more. Finally, review real-time planning frameworks and new extensions that overcome many of their limitations, including a new language framework for describing reactive behaviors.For all software engineers building real-world, real-time systems using artificial intelligence.

Features

• Authored by two of the world's leading artificial intelligence practitioners.
  
• Includes a comprehensive real-world case study.
  
• Covers the latest extensions to real-time planning frameworks.

Contents

1. Evolution of Planning.

2. Subsuming Planning to Reaction.

3. Integration of Planning and Reaction.

4. Deciding at Planning Time.

5. Execution Time: Reacting, (Re)Planning and Deciding.

6. Real-time Planning.

7. Applications.

8. Conclusion.

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