Local Search for Planning and Scheduling: ECAI 2000 Workshop, Berlin, Germany, August 21, 2000. Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence): 2148 - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 3540428984 ISBN 13: 9783540428985

Verlag: Springer, 2001

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Local Search for Planning and Scheduling, held at a satellite workshop of ECAI 2000 in Berlin, Germany in August 2000. The nine revised full papers presented together with an invited survey on meta-heuristics have gone through two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on combinatorial optimization, planning with resources, and related approaches.

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Withtheincreasingdeploymentofplanningandschedulingsystems,developers oftenhavetodealwithverylargesearchspaces,real-timeperformancedemands, anddynamicenvironments. Completere?nementmethodsdonotscalewell,- kinglocalsearchmethodstheonlypracticalalternative. Adynamicenvironment alsopromotestheapplicationoflocalsearch,thesearchheuristicsnotnormally beinga?ectedbymodi?cationsofthesearchspace. Furthermore,localsearchis wellsuitedforanytimerequirementsbecausetheoptimizationgoalisimproved iteratively. Suchadvantagesareo?setbytheincompletenessofmostlocalsearch methods,whichmakesitimpossibletoprovetheinconsistencyoroptimalityof thesolutionsgenerated. Popularlocalsearchapproachesincludeevolutionary- gorithms,simulatedannealing,tabusearch,min-con?icts,GSAT,andWalksat. The?rstarticleinthisbook-aninvitedcontributionbyStefanVoß-givesan overviewofthesemethods. ThebookisbasedonthecontributionstotheWorkshoponLocalSearchfor Planning&Scheduling,heldonAugust21,2000atthe14thEuropeanCon- renceonArti?cialIntelligence(ECAI2000)inBerlin,Germany. Theworkshop broughttogetherresearchersfromtheplanningandschedulingcommunitiesto explorethesetopicswithrespecttolocalsearchprocedures. Aftertheworkshop, asecondreviewprocessresultedinthecontributionstothepresentvolume. Voß'soverviewisfollowedbytwoarticles,byHamiezandHaoandGerevini andSerina,onspeci?c"classical"combinatorialsearchproblems. Thearticleby HamiezandHaoaddressestheproblemofsports-leaguescheduling,presenting results achieved by a tabu search method based on a neighborhood of value swaps. GereviniandSerina'sarticleaddressesthetopicthatdominatestherest ofthebook:actionplanning. Itbuildsontheirpreviousworkonlocalsearch onplanninggraphs,presentinganewsearchguidanceheuristicwithdynamic parametertuning. Thenextsetofarticlesdealwithplanningsystemsthatareabletoinc- porateresourcereasoning. The?rstarticle,ofwhichIamtheauthor,makesit clearwhyconventionalplanningsystemscannotproperlyhandleplanningwith resourcesandgivesanoverviewoftheconstraint-basedExcaliburagent'spl- ningsystem,whichdoesnothavetheserestrictions. Thenextthreearticlesare aboutNASAJPL'sASPEN/CASPERsystem. The?rstone-byChien,Knight, andRabideau-focusesonthereplanningcapabilitiesoflocalsearchmethods, presentingtwoempiricalstudiesinwhichacontinuousplanningprocessclearly outperformsarestartstrategy. Thenextarticle,byEngelhardtandChien,shows howlearningcanbeusedtospeedupthesearchforaplan. Thegoalisto?nda setofsearchheuristicsthatguidethesearchaswellaspossible. Thelastarticle inthisblock-byKnight,Rabideau,andChien-proposesanddemonstrates, a technique for aggregating single search moves so that distant states can be reachedmoreeasily. VI Preface Thelastthreearticlesinthisbookaddresstopicsthatarenotdirectlyrelated tolocalsearch,butthedescribedmethodsmakeverylocaldecisionsduringthe search. RefanidisandVlahavasdescribeextensionstotheGRTplanner,e. g. ,a hill-climbingstrategyforactionselection. Theextensionsresultinmuchbetter performancethanwiththeoriginalGRTplanner. Thesecondarticle-byO- india, Sebastia, and Marzal - presents a planning algorithm that successively re?nes a start graph by di?erent phases, e. g. , a phase to guarantee comp- teness. Inthelastarticle,HiraishiandMizoguchipresentasearchmethodfor constructingaroutemap. Constraintswithrespecttomemoryandtimecanbe incorporatedintothesearchprocess. Iwishtoexpressmygratitudetothemembersoftheprogramcommittee, whoactedasreviewersfortheworkshopandthisvolume. Iwouldalsoliketo thank all those who helped to make this workshop a success - in

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 3540428984
• ISBN 13: 9783540428985
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
• Herausgeber: Nareyek Alexander
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