Where to Find Intelligent P

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Where to Find Intelligent PS Capabilities within
Europe

• Tim Grant
• Atos Origin Nederland / University of Pretoria,
  RSA
• Tim.Grant_at_atosorigin.com / tgrant_at_cs.up.ac.za

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Overview

• Goal
• To give an overview of the intelligent planning
  scheduling capabilities within Europe
• Structure
• Introduction
• Exploiting PLANETs achievements
• IPS products services
• Stakeholders
• European intelligent PS capabilities

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Introducing myself

• Qualifications
• BSc Aeronautical Engineering, Univ. Bristol, UK
• PhD Artificial Intelligence, Univ. Maastricht, NL
• Experience
• 1966-87 Royal Air Force officer
• UK Singapore aircraft maintenance logistics
• 1987-date Principal Consultant, Atos Origin
• NL Aerospace, defence, motorway traffic control
• 2001-date Professor Extraordinary, Univ.
  Pretoria
• RSA Advanced ICT in Planning Control

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Introducing Atos Origin

• Atos Origin
• Leading European IT services supplier
• 30000 staff worldwide
• 50 Dutch (Origin), 50 French (Atos)
• Financially stable
• Technical Automation (TA) business unit
• Co-creating next-generation of intelligent,
  software-intensive systems products together
  with our clients
• In Utrecht (NL)
• Aerospace, Defence, Road Rail Traffic, Telecoms
• In Veldhoven (NL)
• Consumer industrial electronics,
  Semiconductors, Medical equipment, Document
  processing

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Introducing University of Pretoria

• University of Pretoria (Tukkies)
• Front-rank South African university
• Computer Science
• Java, .NET
• Swarm intelligence
• Planning control
• My research interests
• Decentralised planning control
• Generation of Standard Operating Procedures
• Mixed-initiative, collaborative planning
• Dynamic risk management

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Exploiting PLANET
PLANET I
PLANET II
Possible ways of exploiting PLANET (PSARI)
PS curriculum textbook
PS competitions
PS products services
PS technologies applications
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IPS products services (1)

• Tools
• Research
• Research
• COTS
• Tools
• Research
• Tools
• Tools
• COTS
• COTS
• Research
• Research/Tool
• COTS
• Research

• Products
• Knowledge acquisition
• Knowledge acquisition editor
• Automated model extraction
• Model conversion
• Model visualisation/animation
• Domain model analysis
• Model evaluation
• Model validation verification
• Plan-time
• Plan generation
• Scheduling
• Plan/schedule visualisation/animation
• Plan/schedule evaluation
• Plan/schedule validation verification
• Run-time
• Plan/schedule execution
• Plan/schedule recognition

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IPS products services (2)

• Services
• Relating to PS software
• Selection
• Installation
• Integration
• Tailoring to domain requirements
• Relating to domain knowledge
• Acquisition
• Modelling/representation
• Relating to execution
• Plan/schedule execution
• Monitoring control of plan-based operations
• Fault detection isolation recovery

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Stakeholders innovation (1)
Process model for innovation (Kern, 2001)
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Stakeholders innovation (2)
System of knowledge creation
System of knowledge transfer
System of knowledge financing
System of knowledge regulation
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Stakeholders product creation
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Stakeholders scenarios (1)

• Pure research
• One piece of research as input to next
• Product innovation
• RD leading to product creation lifecycle
• Component innovation
• RD leads to manufacture of component
• Component feeds into product lifecycle
• Product improvement
• Operational shortcomings lead to new creation
• Market-led innovation
• Operational shortcomings lead to new RD

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Stakeholders scenarios (2)
Pure academic scenario
Product innovation scenario
Component innovation scenario
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Stakeholders scenarios (3)
Product improvement scenario
Market-led innovation scenario
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Stakeholders PS needs
provides experience
determines goals, resources standards
provides experience on shortcomings
provides as-built domain knowledge
provides plans
provides state information
provides SOPs
provides PS tools
instructs
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European capabilities (1)
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European capabilities (2)

• Teaching
• RD
• Advanced planning scheduling
• Multi-agent technology
• Robotics
• Web
• Products
• Workforce management
• Robotics
• Planning support
• Capturing domain knowledge for PS
• Generating plans/schedules
• Animating visualising plans/schedules
• Constraint programming
• Services
• (Spacecraft) mission planning
• (Spacecraft) assembly, integration testing

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European capabilities (3)

• Country
• Austria
• Belgium
• Cyprus
• Czech
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Portugal
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• United Kingdom

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Supplier 1 2 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2
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European capabilities (4)

• Capabilities in Germany
• Universities
• University of Ulm, Faculty of Computer Science
• Mechanical inference systems
• Multi-agent systems
• Task planning
• Knowledge representation for autonomous systems
• SW development safety-critical systems
• Aachen University of Technology (RWTH Aachen),
  Knowledge-Based Systems group
• Knowledge representation
• Robotics

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European capabilities (5)

• Capabilities in Germany
• Universities (cont)
• Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn
• Descriptive programming
• Object-oriented databases
• Geographical information systems
• Internet information systems
• Knowledge-based systems
• Computer-supported cooperative working
• AI autonomous mobile systems (robotics)

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European capabilities (6)

• Capabilities in Germany
• Universities (cont)
• TU Darmstadt, Intellectics group
• Deduction
• Knowledge representation
• Plan generation
• Machine learning
• Stochastic search
• University of Freiburg, Institute for Computer
  Science
• Algorithms data structures
• Computer architecture
• Software engineering
• Foundations of AI

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European capabilities (7)

• Capabilities in Germany
• Universities (cont)
• Munich University of Technology, Intelligent
  Autonomous Systems group
• Structured reactive controllers
• Plan-based control of robotic agents
• Plan-based control of software agents

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European capabilities (8)

• Capabilities in Germany
• Institutes
• Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology
  Applied Work Science (BIBA), University of
  Bremen
• (PLT) Production structure, logistics
  telematics
• (ATOP) Applied work science, industrial
  management, organisation work development
• (PPC) Product development, process planning
  computer-aided engineering
• (MAQ) Metrology, automation quality science
• (IPS) Intelligent production logistics systems

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European capabilities (9)

• Capabilities in Germany
• Institutes (cont)
• DFKI
• Deduction multi-agent systems
• Knowledge management
• Intelligent user interfaces
• Intelligent visualisation simulation systems
• Language technology
• Fraunhofer Institute, Institute for Autonomous
  Intelligent Systems
• Knowledge computing
• Autonomous robots

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European capabilities (10)

• Capabilities in Germany
• Suppliers
• Plasim Planungs- und Simulationsbüro
  (Delmenhorst)
• Simulation systems for planning
• Logistics
• Automobile industry
• SMEs (Mittelstand / KMUs)
• 3D animation
• Related services
• Siemens AG
• Automation control
• Information communications
• Ximes GmbH (Vienna)
• Shift planning operating hours

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European capabilities (11)

• Capabilities in Germany
• Users
• European Space Operations Centre (Darmstadt)
• Spacecraft mission planning
• Spacecraft mission control
• SCOS-II (30 users)