Rationale Capture and Reuse in Mixed-Initiative Planning

Principle Investigator: Manuela Veloso
Postdoctoral Fellow: Michael T. Cox
Research Programmer: Gary Pelton

  • This project started in June 1995 as part of the DARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative.
    Program Director: Doug Dyer.

  • We address mixed-initiative planning and learning from experience in complex adversarial domains, focusing on the Air Campaign Planning (ACP) task with special attention to air deployment.

  • Our central objective is to integrate into a mixed-initiative planning architecture the ability to capture and creatively replay the derivation and the rationale underlying the joint human-and-machine-based decision-making process while planning.

  • We expect to achieve significant reductions in plan generation time and improvements in plan quality over unaided human expert planners by rationale-driven (partial or full) reuse of past plans and subplans. The expert user can exploit the rationale at individual decisions or have the system offer entire pre-planned segments or strategies satisfying the requisite rationale for the user to accept, reject or modify.

  • Research Summary

    • ARPI Technology Integration Experiment (TIE) with BBN, Boston

    Papers on the project thrust.

    Reading Group on Case-Based Mixed-Initiative Planning

    Correspondence: mcox+@cs.cmu.edu

    Last Edited: August 13, 1998