___________________________________________________ Informatics MSc Course PLAN – Automated Planning The aim of this course is to provide: a solid grounding in artificial intelligence techniques and algorithms for planning, with a comprehensive view of the wide spectrum of different problems and approaches, including their underlying theory and their applications

2 AI Planning in Productive Use

3 Defining AI Planning  planning: explicit deliberation process that chooses and organizes actions by anticipating their outcomes aims at achieving some pre-stated objectives  AI planning: computational study of this deliberation process

4 Course Description  Understand and formalize different types of planning problems  Discuss the theoretical and practical applicability of different approaches  Have the basic know how to design and implement planning systems  Know how to use planning technology for projects in different application domains  Ability to review planning literature relevant to an area covered in the course

5 Potential MSc Projects  A Human/Robot/Sensor System Team for an Emergency Response Task  Teamwork for Emergency Response  Controlling Avatars in a MMORPG  Self Proposed? Come and Talk with us.

6 Prof. Austin Tate Director, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute Professor of Knowledge-Based Systems, University of Edinburgh Research on advanced knowledge and planning technologies, especially for use in emergency response and search and rescue.. Dr. Gerhard Wickler Research Fellow, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute Research on capability representations for intelligent agents, AI search algorithms, multi- agent planning in search and rescue applications.