Need for Integration

• Most existing planners concentrate on action selection, ignoring resource allocation

  • Plan-based interfaces
  • Interactive decision support

• Most existing schedulers concentrate only on resource allocation, ignoring action selection

  • E.g. HSTS operation scheduling

• Many real-world problems require both capabilities
  • Supply Chain Management problems
    • I2, ILOG, Manugistics
  • Planning in domains with durative actions, continuous change
    • NASA RAX experiment

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