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Terry Lyle Zimmerman
Project Scientist

Associated center: CIMDS

Email address: wizim@cs.cmu.edu
Office: NSH 1517
Phone: (412) 268-6080
Fax: 412-268-5569

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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My research interests lie broadly in artificial intelligence and particularly center on automated planning and scheduling for applications in space missions, transportation and logistics problems, and domains for which human-computer interaction plays a prominent role. I have recently focused on incremental scheduling approaches that seek to maximize plan quality in domains where the utility gained by executing an activity is a function of the time and resources that are allocated to it. I am also working towards the integration and interleaving of automated planning methods into large-scale, human-directed scheduling systems. I have adapted machine learning methods to boost planning performance and am exploring adaptation of such techniques to the scheduling aspect of an integrated system.

artificial intelligence, machine learning, planning, and scheduling

• Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory - developing new theories, techniques and software technologies in planning, scheduling and control

• Coordinators - The DARPA COORDINATORS program defines a challenging multi-agent application, with agents operating in a highly dynamic environment, where no agent has a complete view of the problem.

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Distributed Management of Flexible Times Schedules
  S. Smith, A.T. Gallagher, T.L. Zimmerman, L. Barbulescu, and Z. Rubinstein
  2007 Intl conf on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), May, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [363 KB] copyrighted

• Incremental Scheduling to Maximize Quality in a Dynamic Environment
  A.T. Gallagher, T.L. Zimmerman, and S. Smith
  ICAPS 2006 (International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, June, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [179 KB], ps.gz [182 KB] copyrighted

• Multi-Agent Management of Joint Schedules
  S. Smith, A.T. Gallagher, T.L. Zimmerman, L. Barbulescu, and Z. Rubinstein
  Proceedings of the 2006 AAAI Spring Symposium on Distributed Plan and Schedule Management, AAAI Press, March, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [309 KB] copyrighted

• Towards Integrated Planning and Scheduling: Resource Abstraction in the Planning Graph
  T.L. Zimmerman and S. Smith
  AAAI 2005 Workshop on Integrating Planning into Scheduling, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, July, 2005, pp. 42-48. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [186 KB] copyrighted

• Planning - Scheduling Connections through Exogenous Events
  T.L. Zimmerman, M.B. Do, and S. Kambhampati
  ICAPS-04 Workshop on Integrating Planning into Scheduling, AAAI Press, June, 2004, pp. 32-37. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [129 KB], ps.gz [157 KB] copyrighted

• Planning Tactics within Scheduling Problems
  S. Smith and T.L. Zimmerman
  ICAPS '04 Workshop Workshop on Integrating Planning Into Scheduling, June, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [551 KB] copyrighted