Generating project networks

  • Authors:
  • Austin Tate

  • Affiliations:
  • Edinburgh Regional Computing Centre, Edinburgh, U.K. and Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'77 Proceedings of the 5th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

Procedures for optimization and resource allocation in Operations Research first require a project network for the task to be specified. The specification of a project network is at present done in an intuitive way. AI work in plan formation has developed formalisms for specifying primitive activities, and recent work by Sacerdoti (1975a) has developed a planner able to generate a plan as a partially ordered network of actions. The "planning: a joint AI/OR approach" project at Edinburgh has extended such work and provided a hierarchic planner which can aid in the generation of project networks. This paper describes the planner (NONLIN) and the Task Formalism (TF) used to hierarchically specify a domain.