Informatics MSc Course PLAN Automated Planning The aim

__________________________ 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 http: //www. inf. ed. ac. uk/teaching/courses/plan/ http: //www. aiai. ed. ac. uk/project/teaching/plan/

AI Planning in Productive Use http: //www. aiai. ed. ac. uk/project/plan/ 2

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 3

Course Description § Understand formalize different types of planning problems § Discuss 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 4

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. 5

Dr. Gerhard Wickler Prof. Austin Tate • Research Fellow, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute • Director, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute • Research on capability representations for intelligent agents, AI search algorithms, multi-agent planning in search and rescue applications. • 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. 6