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Head: Stephen Smith

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

Associated center: CIMDS
Associated lab/group: Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory

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Project Description

We are developing theories, techniques and software architectures that address these problems, enabling both flexible collaborative problem solving between user and system, and flexible reconfiguration of system functionality to accommodate new domains and/or domain requirements. Our approach to mixed-initiative systems properly recognizes scheduling for what it is in most practical domains: an iterative process of "getting the constraints right" in which humans always have strategic, big-picture decision-making expertise and knowledge to contribute but are unable to effectively cope with the complexity of detailed solution development. We are developing a collaborative scheduling framework based on this process viewpoint, where the user visualizes and manipulates solutions from comprehensible, aggregate perspectives, and the system incrementally manages the details of user changes in accordance with communicated goals and expectations. Our approach to scheduling system architecture builds from object technology concepts. We are developing a general "ontology" of scheduling concepts to enable application in different domains and allow integration with other, complementary problem solving and information processing services. Our broader goal is a planning and scheduling "tool box", an application construction environment which couples a system configuration infra-structure with expandable libraries of functional componentry.

Past members

Name Title Email Address
Marcel's personal homepage Marcel Becker Systems Scientist
Eric Biefeld Senior Research Programmer
Charles Collins Research Programmer cwc@cs.cmu.edu
David's personal homepage David Hildum Project Scientist hildum@cs.cmu.edu
Laurence Kramer Assoc Dir- Intelligent Coord Logistics lkramer@cs.cmu.edu
Ora Lassila Visiting Scientist
Dirk Lemmermann Senior Research Programmer
Garrett's personal homepage Garrett Pelton Visiting Resaerch Staff, LTI gap+@cs.cmu.edu
Mark Shieh Research Programmer
Stephen's personal homepage Stephen Smith Research Professor sfs@cs.cmu.edu
Allen Tseng Research Programmer
Qu's personal homepage Qu Zhou Project Scientist

Past Sub-projects

AMC Barrelmaster Scheduling - Integrated management of airlift and tanker missions at the USAF Air Mobility Command.
HSTS Space Observatory Scheduler - HSTS has been developed and applied principally in the context of space-based observatory scheduling problems.
Scheduling and Visualization - This project is investigating the development of next-generation environments for collaborative analysis and management of large-scale schedules.
 

Publications

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