ISBN: 9783540428985 - local search for planning and scheduling: ecai 2000 workshop, berlin, germany, august 21, 2000. revised papers (lecture notes in computer science / ... notes in computer science, 2148, band 2148) (3 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 including, of course,theparticipantsandtheauthorsofpapersinthisvolume. June2001 AlexanderNareyek WorkshopChair ProgramCommittee EmileH. L. Aarts PhilipsResearch Jos eLuisAmbite Univ. ofSouthernCalifornia BlaiBonet UniversityofCalifornia RonenI. Brafman Ben-GurionUniversity SteveChien NASAJPL AndrewDavenport IBMT. J. Watson AlfonsoGerevini Universit`adiBrescia HolgerH. Hoos Univ. ofBritishColumbia AlexanderNareyek GMDFIRST AngeloO. …