Incrementally scheduling with qualitative temporal information

  • Authors:
  • Florent Launay;Debasis Mitra

  • Affiliations:
  • Florida Institute of Technology;Florida Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • IEA/AIE'2005 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Scheduling is typically a quantitative engineering problem involving tasks and constraints. However, there are many real life situations where the input is qualitative in nature and any quantitative information is neither available nor cared for. We address here such a qualitative scheduling problem with disjunctive temporal constraints between the tasks. The problem we address is incremental in nature, where a new task is added to a committed schedule. We not only find a valid schedule when it exists, but also analyze the causes of inconsistency otherwise. This is new direction of research.