Knowledge Engineering Technical Co-ordination Unit: PROGRESS

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Knowledge Engineering Technical Co-ordination
Unit PROGRESS

• Lee McCluskey
• University of Huddersfield

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Update of Website

• Update of Members Details We now have 30 members
  representing approx. 18 nodes
• Events We have records of all our workshops
  (including reports, papers and in some cases
  slides) and 2 cross site visit reports
• Roadmap new version soon!
• Links to all our current exciting activities

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Competition on KE in Planning

• The ICP has brought benefits to the community but
  is controversial - it encourages rapid
  development - but in a narrow area
• The aim of a KE Competition is to promote the
  knowledge-based aspects of planning, by
  evaluating KE tools within a competitive forum.
• It should encourage the development and sharing
  of tools to help in the whole process of AI
  planning including domain modelling, heuristic
  acquisition, planner-domain matching and so
  forth.
• it should lead to some form of communication
  medium for knowledged-based domain models

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ROADMAP

• The Roadmap has been revised 3 or 4 times during
  PLANETs lifetime.
• Latest additions / developments include
• Semantic Web and Ontologies
• KE fom a KBS perspective
• KE in AI Planning an experience report from a
  knowledge engineer
• more on the way

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PLANSERVE

• PLANSERVE originated as a Framework 6 expession
  of interest backed by TCU members..
• The aim of the project is to research and develop
  the enabling technology that will make
  intelligent planning technology generally
  accessible to the user community, and to
  prototype this technology by the creation of
  intelligent planning services targeted at the
  semantic web.
• We are planning to pursue this under the Future
  and Emerging Technologies (FET) Instrument

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Plans

• Stage a Small Scale ICKEP (workshop this
  afternoon)
• Create a FET proposal from PLANSERVE (workshop
  tomorrow)
• Submit our completed Roadmap for evaluation and
  eventual publication (workshop this afternoon)
• Proposal for a Cross Site Visit (between Univ
  of Troyes and Univ of Huddersfield)