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Los Angeles (LA) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Technical Activity Committee on Artificial Intelligence (TACART)

             TACART

TOPIC:       ASPEN: A Framework for Automated
                 Planning and Scheduling

SPEAKER:     Alex Fukunaga
             JPL and UCLA

DATE:        15 January 1997 (Wednesday night)

TIME:        The talk will begin at 7:30.

PLACE:       Loyola Marymount University, Pereira Hall 51
             LMU is located at Loyola Blvd. and 80th Street in
             Westchester. From the 405, take the Manchester exit
             and proceed west to Loyola Blvd.  Turn north, and
             continue until you enter the LMU campus.  Ask the
             guard for directions to Pereira Hall. Parking is free.

ABSTRACT:    A number of successful applications of automated
             planning and scheduling of spacecraft operations 
             have recently been reported in the literature.
             However, these applications have been one-of-a-kind
             applications that required a substantial amount of
             development effort.  ASPEN (Automated Scheduling
             and Planning ENvironment) is a modular, reconfigurable
             application framework which is capable of supporting
             a wide range of constraint-driven planning and
             scheduling applications.  ASPEN provides a set of
             reusable software components for planning/scheduling
             systems including: an expressive modeling language,
             a resource management system, a temporal reasoning
             system, several search engines, and a graphical
             interface.  Current applications of ASPEN include a
             planner/scheduler for commanding the New Millennium's
             Earth Orbiter One spacecraft and the UFO-1 naval
             communications satellite, as well as a ground
             maintenance scheduler for the Reusable Launch Vehicle.
             This talk will describe the ASPEN architecture,
             focusing on the knowledge representation and reasoning
             capabilities supported by the system, and the approach
             used to integrate planning and scheduling into a
             single framework.

BIOGRAPHY:   Alex Fukunaga is a Member of the Technical Staff
             in the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Jet
             Propulsion Laboratory.  He holds an A.B. in
             Computer Science from Harvard University and an
             M.S. in Computer Science from UCLA, where he is
             currently a Ph.D. student. His research interests
             include optimization, search, machine learning,
             design automation, and automated planning/scheduling.

DINNER:      No dinner is planned.  No social activities are planned.
NEWSGROUPS:  Announced in comp.ai, la.seminars, ca.seminars.
HOMEPAGE:    http://kecksvr.eng.lmu.edu/TACART.html (under repair).
CONTACTS:    L. Andrew Campbell campbell@aero.org (310) 336-8642 or
             Program Chair Barney Toma tomab@ecn.com (310) 323-8451.
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