Automated Planning and Scheduling Technologies in
New Methods of Electronic, Mobile and Collaborative Work
Tuesday, September 11th, 2001
Museum Victorio Macho, Toledo, Spain (co-located with ECP-01)

The field of artificial intelligence planning and scheduling could provide the technology to increase the autonomy of systems by making them more flexible, robust, and adaptive. Planning and scheduling technology is relevant to many aspects of system-supported synthesis, execution, and monitoring of courses of actions, activities, and tasks. With that it is central to a variety of processes in most enterprises and organisations. The technology has a particular impact in view of the emerging electronic markets and the new associated business processes. In particular, it can fruitfully contribute to manage the complexity and the flexibility issues posed by Web applications and mobile and collaborative work via the Web. The fast evolution of Web applications has lead to a broad notion of e-tasks, including but not limited to e-commerce, where the relevant topics are reliability, flexibility, adaptation, automation of activities in the unpredictable, dynamical and time bounded Web environment. Applications such as supply chain management or other multistage Web transactions reinforce the need for increasingly autonomous and flexible systems. This includes the construction and operation of adaptive Web sites, the planning and scheduling of complex Web transactions as well as their monitoring.

Aims of the Workshop

The aim of the workshop is to present and discuss in a working and collaborative atmosphere current results and perspectives for planning and scheduling technologies in new methods of work, in particular through the exploitation of e-commerce/e-work and the Internet, and through new modes of mobile and collaborative working. In this context, examples of topics of interest for the workshop are (but not limited to):

• models, languages and integration issues for planning and scheduling on the Web
  
• Web-based collaborative work
  
• user interface and other issues relating to mobile planning and scheduling
  
• planning models for online interaction, user monitoring,
  
• process management and workflow
  
• distance learning, online education, e-learning
  
• information gathering
  
• automatic and adaptive generation/maintenance of Web resources
  
• supply chain management
  
• mixed-initiative planning and scheduling for Web applications

Workshop Format

The workshop will be a one-day event organized in conjunction with ECP'01 and sponsored by PLANET. It will contain invited talk(s), with the bulk of the day devoted to contributions selected on the basis of relevance with respect to the workshops goals and their scientific level.

Submissions

Papers should be a maximum of 5000 words, and should be submitted by email to Alfredo Milani at milani@unipg.it by July 23th 2001 at the latest, in (gzip/winzip) COMPRESSED postscript, pdf or word formats. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees and the referees' decision will be conveyed to the first author by August 10th. Final electronic versions of papers will be expected by September 4th at the latest, and will be placed on the Web. Accepted contributors will be expected to present their paper at the workshop, which will be published in the workshop proceedings. Selected workshop contributions will be published in a special issue of the PLANET Newsletter.

Organising Committee

Ricardo Aler Mur (Local Arrangements, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Avenida de la Universidad, 30
28911 Leganés
Madrid
Spain
aler@inf.uc3m.es
Tel: +34-91-624 9418
Fax: +34-91-624 9430

Lee McCluskey (Co-Chair, University of Huddersfield, UK)
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
School of Computing and Mathematics,
The University of Huddersfield,
Queensgate,
Huddersfield,
West Yorks HD1 3DH, UK
lee@zeus.hud.ac.uk
tel: +44 1484 472247
fax: +44 1484 421106

Alfredo Milani (Co-Chair, University of Perugia, Italy)
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Universita' degli Studi di Perugia
Via Vanvitelli 1
06100 PERUGIA ITALY
milani@unipg.it
tel.+39-075-585.5049
fax +39-075-585.5024

Programme Committee

• Jose Luis Ambite (ISI, University of Southern California, USA)
• Ruth Aylett (University of Salford, UK)
• Susanne Biundo (University of Ulm, Germany)
• Daniel Borrajo (University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
• David Camacho (University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
• Luis Castillo (University of Granada, Spain)
• Tim Grant (Atos Origin, The Netherlands)
• Peter Jarvis (Stanford Research Institute, USA)
• Angelo Oddi (IP-CNR, Italy)