O-Plan Distribution Read Me File Updated: Tue May 30 16:18:21 2000 by Jeff Dalton (c) Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, AIAI, University of Edinburgh Version: O-Plan 3.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Documentation included with the Release Information on unpacking, installing and initial testing of O-Plan is provided the "INSTALL" file. The following documents are provided in the release iamge in PostScript form in subdirectories of the "documentation" directory - User Guide - TF Manual Additional documentation is included in the directory "source/doc". Information on interfacing other systems to O-Plan is provided in the following files: source/doc/ta-interface source/doc/ta-interface-quick-reference Information on using a Web browser to provide a "COA evaluation matrix" interface to O-Plan can be found in: source/doc/http-mode ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Support Information and Materials Information and materials which support the release can be found at http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan/release ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Documents Describing O-Plan Tate, A., Drabble, B. and Dalton, J. (1996) O-Plan: a Knowledge-Based Planner and its Application to Logistics - in Advanced Planning Technology, Morgan Kaufmann, (Tate, A. ed.), AAAI Press, May 1996. http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan/documents/1996/96-arpi-oplan-and-logistics.ps A collection of papers on the O-Plan system was provided in the following Technical Report. These papers are all available via http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan/documents/index.html Tate, A., Drabble, B. and Dalton, J. An Engineer's Approach to the Application of Knowledge Based Planning and Scheduling Techniques to Logistics, USAF Rome Laboratory Technical Report RL-TR-95-235, December 1995. Demonstration domain descriptions in O-Plan's Task Formalism (TF) can be found via http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan/release/tf PlanWorld Viewers based on AutoCAD as released with version 2.3 are provided in http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan/release/2.3/ac ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DARPA-Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative The O-Plan project is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Rome Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, USAF, under grant number F30602-95-1-0022. The O-Plan project is monitored by Dr. Northrup Fowler III at the USAF Rome Laboratory. The US Government is authorised to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation hereon. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing official policies or endorsements, either express or implied, of DARPA, Rome Laboratory or the US Government. For a description of work in the Planning Initiative see http://arpi.isx.com/ and the following book: Tate, A. (ed.) Advanced Planning Technology, Morgan Kaufmann, May 1996 http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Press/Catalog/tate.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ O-Plan 2.3 O-Plan Release 2.3 (System Date: 12-Jul-95, Release Image Date: 13-Jul-95) was a full demonstration system including a simple task assignment agent/menu interface, a planner agent and a demonstration of an execution agent. The release contained AutoCAD based PlanWorld Viewers for some domains. The system was released only for use within the DARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative. Release 2.3 materials have been placed at http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan/release/2.3 to allow future demonstration use and as an archive of previous demonstration material now removed from the later releases (version 3.1 onwards). The O-Plan 2.3 release is not supported in any way and no licence to use it is provided. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contacting the O-Plan Team Web page: http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan E-mail: oplam@aiai.ed.ac.uk Address: O-Plan Team Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN, UK Tel: (Int. +44) 131 650 2732 Fax: (Int. +44) 131 650 6513