Technical Coordination Unit on Planning and Scheduling for the Web.

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Technical Coordination Unit on Planning and
Scheduling for the Web.

• Alfredo Milani
• University of Perugia, Italy

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TCU Goals and Motivations.
collecting and co-ordinating PLANET nodes active
in the application of PS to

• web based systems
• web based services
• relevant components of the new information
  technologies

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TCU Goals and Motivations.
exploring and pointing out the potential role of
PS as a key factor in the framework of the
technologies for the global new IS
PS convey the flexibility typical of knowledge
based technologies in support of new modalities
of work, production, commerce, entertainment and
education
relevant issues autonomy, adaptivity,
distribution, mobility, automatic collaborative
support
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TCU Goals and Motivations.
Web as a Trasparent Media Traditional PS systems
use the web as a communication media, they act
via the web
Web as an Environment Web entities and Web
services are the object of PS systems, actions
and plans on the web are pursuing goals on web
entities
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TCU Goals and Motivations.
Web as an Environment

• components for web servers (goal guided
  synthesis/maintenance of web sites)
• components for supporting online services (
  scheduling load distribution to online assistance
  operators, activation of assistance/emergency
  chain, online configuration of products)
• generation/monitoring of supply chain
  (scheduling, logistics, resources management)
• user support, user adaptive services (e.g.
  automatic synthesis monitoring for personalized
  educational systems, personalized newspapers)
• PS components of softbot, (e.g. softbot for
  automatic auctioning, stockbots etc.)
• online PS services ( general or specialized
  tools which plan or schedule on demand, e.g. for
  checking/rescheduling activities)

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TCU Goals and Motivations.

• The TCU aims not only a Web focus but also
• Collaborative systems
• Distributed and mobile environments
• New media/devices

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TCU Activities
Workshop on Automated PS in New Methods of
Electronic, Mobile, and Collaborative Work,
co-chaired L.McCluskey, A.Milani Toledo, Spain,
11th September 2001 co-sponsored by ECP
8 talks, 30 participants demos, panel discussion
TCU Kickoff Meeting Toledo, Spain, 11th
September 2001
20 participant nodes
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TCU Workshop Panel

• Travel Assistant (J.L.Ambite, ISI, California)
• PS based dynamic integration of web sources
  (airfares, parking fares,timetables, weather
  conditions etc )
• MEXAR (A. Oddi, CNR, Italy )
• mixed-initiative PS, collaborative development
  of schedules for spacecraft mission plan
• Business Process Re-engineering (M.D.Moreno,
  Univ.Alcala, Spain )
• organisations restructure their business
  processes wrt e-business models
• AI Software and e-commerce (R.Benjamins,
  Int.Soft.Comp., Spain)
• online banking agents and shopping agents
  reasoning on commercial goals
• BT Workforce Management System (B. Laithwaite,
  APSolve, UK)
• scheduling British Telecom workforce activities
  in a mobile environment

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TCU RoadMap preliminary guidelines

• assembling and configuring existing primitive
  services on the web for use in PS
• development of a common semantics for web sites
  oriented to PS ( link to XML technologies,
  planning vocabularies, emerging wrapper
  technologies)
• development of models and techniques in
  distributed, mobile, collaborative PS

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WebTCU Actions
establishing a TCU Web site

• as place for announcements/info exchange among
  PLANET members

collection of demos applications of WEB PS

• not only a showcase but online demo/applications
• applications and resources within and outside
  the network

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WebTCU Actions
definition of the TCU roadmap

• as the main guideline for the TCU
• starting by the next TCU Meeting May/June 2002

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WebTCU Actions
promoting nodes participation and support to
e-commerce conferences and events

• sponsorship of side events (e.g. workshop,
  panels, seminars etc.)
• short info announces about WebTCU and PLANET
• reports from IT and PS conferences to be
  disseminated among PLANET members, focusing on
  what is going on/emerging in the field

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WebTCU Actions
Actions for involving Web New IT companies

• target for technology transfer
• source of relevant issues from marketplace to
  research

Information Days with focused homogeneus target
audience
info announces at specialised conferences
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WebTCU Members
Currently

• growing interest in memberships
• attracting new PLANET members, also from outside
  EU (USA, Eastern Europe)

Special actions for

• Promoting participations of Web and New IT
  companies

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WebTCU Deliverables

• Proceedings of the ECP/Planet Workshop on
  Automated PS in New Methods of Electronic,
  Mobile, and Collaborative Work, edited by
  L.McCluskey, A.Milani
• Workshop Report, edited by L.McCluskey
• TCU Web site at www.planet-noe.org
• TCU related articles/reports forthcoming
  publication on PLANET Newsletter (2nd
  ICEC,Vienna, Oct 2001)

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Technical Coordination Unit on Planning and
Scheduling for the Web.

• Alfredo Milani
• University of Perugia, Italy