Time-Oriented Skeletal Plans Support to Design and Execution.pdfVIP

Fourth European Conference on Planning ECP ’97 (EWSP ’97), Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Toulouse, France, September 24-26,1997. Time-Oriented Skeletal Plans: Support to Design and Execution 1 2 3 4 5 Silvia Miksch , Yuval Shahar , Werner Horn , Christian Popow , Franz Paky , Peter Johnson6 1 Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Software Technology, Resselgasse 3/188, A-1040 Vienna, Austria, email: silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at 2 Section on Medical Informatics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94 305 - 5479, USA email: shahar@smi.stanford.edu 3 Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI) Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, University of Vienna, Freyung 6, A-1010 Vienna, Austria, email: werner@ai.univie.ac.at 4 NICU, Department of Pediatrics, University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria, email: popow@vm.akh-wien.ac.at 5 Department of Pediatrics, Hospital of Mödling, Weyprechtgasse 12, A-2340 Mödling, Austria, email: franz.paky@magnet.at 6 The Sowerby Unit for Primary Care Informatics, University of Newcastle, 21 Claremont Place, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 4AA, UK, email: pete@mimir.demon.co.uk Skeletal plans are a powerful way to reuse existing domain-specific procedural knowledge. In the project, a set of tasks that support the design and the execution of skeletal plans by a human executing agent other than the original plan designer are designed. The underlying requirement to