1. http://planet.dfki.de European Network of Excellence in AI Planning PLANET II -- An Overview -- Susanne Biundo University of Ulm, Germany

2. Objectives Promotion of the development and use of planning and scheduling technology increase the awareness of the technology and promote pan- European and international collaboration promote the orientation of research more closely towards application requirements and open up new application areas provide a well-known and internationally recognised expert forum for discussion and exchange support high-quality training and teaching

3. How to Achieve the Objectives extend and maintain the PLANET organisational framework involve and bring together both suppliers and (potential) users of the technology co-ordinate high-quality training, teaching and exchange activities provide an elaborate information and communication infrastructure maintain an open and responsive structure

4. Work packages Research and Development Co-ordination Malik Ghallab, Lee McCluskey 1 Training and Exchange Sam Steel, Susanne Biundo 4 Technology Transfer and Communication Ruth Aylett, Tim Grant, Brian Drabble 2 Technical Co-ordination Units Amedeo Cesta, Alfredo Milani 3 Information Infrastructure and Management Susanne Biundo, Bernd Schattenberg 5

5. Structure of PLANET II Aerospace Applications Amedeo Cesta Tim Grant Workflow Management Daniel Borrajo Robot Planning Malik Ghallab Knowledge Engineering Lee McCluskey Intelligent Manufacturing Ruth Aylett On-line Planning and Scheduling Gerard Verfaille Planning and IT for the Web Alfredo Milani

6. WP3: Technical Co-ordination Units TCUs are the core operating initiatives to promote focused actions responsiveness –maintain attention to new technological developments/areas –respond to the needs of network members and the community –create (and close) TCUs continuity –focus on a particular area of interest for a certain time period –organise a series of focused workshops –create essential parts of the overall roadmap

7. Development of the Network 65 nodes in 14 countries - 16 industrial companies 7 SMEs - 16 research centres - 33 universities 10 associated members - end-user organisations - consultancy companies - software vendors

8. WP1: Research and Development support of scientific workshops, in particular those relating new areas to planning and scheduling support of conferences, in particular ECP’01 and AIPS’02 organisation of technical workshops identification and development of industrial benchmark problems creation of an online database with collections of planning tools and benchmark problems organisation of competitions between planning and scheduling techniques

9. WP2: Technology Transfer organisation of industrial technology information days production of specific promotional material creation of a repository/catalogue of free/commercial planning and scheduling software participation in industrial exhibitions and conferences development of case studies organisation of joint events with other NoEs –Planning & Agents AgentLink –Manufacturing Applications of P&S ICIMS NoE –Planning & Robotics Euron

10. Technology Information Days - An offer to people form industrial companies and authorities Overview of the technology Demonstration of successful industrial applications in - aircraft scheduling - plant control - workflow -... Reports on increased profitability and responsiveness Information Days

11. WP4: Training and Exchange organisation of the International Summer School on AI Planning development of a planning and scheduling curriculum organisation of gap-bridging seminars support of a limited number of cross-site visits with a general benefit to the community –update of roadmaps –preparation of standardisation proposals –organisation of competitions –update of the network’s online databases

12. WP5: Infrastructure and Management edition of the newsletter, production of promotion material extension and maintenance of the PLANET Website organisation of the internal evaluation moderation of the mailinglist integration of new nodes external contacts and co-operations administration co-ordination with the European Commission

13. Measures of Success the number of new network members and associated members the number of research activities the number of training and exchange activities the number of technology transfer co-ordination activities the numbers of accesses to the PLANET II web site and repositories the number and composition of participants in each network activity

14. Deliverables workshop proceedings roadmaps test and evaluation reports from technical workshops online database containing benchmark applications and tools repository and catalogue of free planning and scheduling software case studies planning and scheduling curriculum annual reports by the network management

15. Milestones April: Start of PLANET 2 April: End of PLANET 2 2001200220032004 Sep: ECP 2001 and General Network Meeting April: AIPS 2002 Planning Competition Research Website online First Technical Workshops held Industrial Benchmark Problem Research Database Scientific Workshops Technical Workshops Extension of Benchmarks Improvement of Database Development of Roadmap July: ECAI Aug: IJCAI 2001

16. Relevance to Key Action II Opportunities for the development of e-work and e- commerce applications creation of intelligent work flows and process operating procedures II.2 support of knowledge maintenance and acquisition information gathering from heterogeneous, distributed sources II.1.2 planning and scheduling for e-commerce transactions management of orders and sales II.3 support for the dynamic assembly and operation of virtual enterprises/businesses II.3

17. Aerospace Applications Amedeo Cesta Tim Grant Workflow Management Daniel Borrajo Robot Planning Malik Ghallab Knowledge Engineering Lee McCluskey Intelligent Manufacturing Ruth Aylett On-line Planning and Scheduling Gerard Verfaille Planning and IT for the Web Alfredo Milani TCU Relation to 5th FP

18. Network Co-ordinator: Susanne Biundo Management Structure Network Executive Committee Ruth AylettSusanne Biundo Daniel BorrajoAmedeo Cesta Brian DrabbleMalik Ghallab Tim GrantVince Long Lee McCluskeyAlfredo Milani Sam SteelGerard Verfaille Network Administrator: Bernd Schattenberg

19. Budget: Breakdown of Yearly Costs travel and subsistence [ 10 meetings (workshops, TCU meetings, etc.) funded to an average of 1000 Euro per person and meeting; 15 working meetings (cross-site visits) funded to an average of 1000 Euro per meeting ] 165.000 E Summer School 35.000 E Conference Support 15.000 E Newsletter (8.000 E), Leaflets & Poster (2.000 E) 10.000 E Labour [ full-time network administrator (53.200 E according to BAT scale), part-time Webadmin (25.500 E) subcontracting (25.500 E)] 104.200 E Computing Costs 1.300 E Consumables 2.000 E -------------- 332.500 E