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Automated Planning

The University of Maryland has one of the world's best research and educational programs on automated planning.

Faculty & staff	Students	Former faculty & staff	Former students
Dana Nau Ugur Kuter S.K. Gupta V.S. Subrahmanian Florent Teichteil	Ron Alford Tsz-Chiu Au Ryan Carr Austin Parker Eric Raboin Amy Sliva Nathaniel Waisbrot	Jim Hendler Hector Munoz-Avila Bill Murdock	Mihai Ciocoiu Kutluhan Erol Naresh Gupta Kiran Hebbar Okhtay Ilghami Subbarao Kambhampati Bill Regli	Stephen J. J. Smith Reiko Tsuneto Fusun Yaman Qiang Yang Dan Wu Zhiyang Yao Lingling Zhang

Coursework:

CMSC 722, AI Planning - this course is part of the Computer Science graduate curriculum. It is taught approximately once per year.

Selected projects and accomplishments:

2007: Dana Nau's invited talk at BISFAI-07 - here's a copy of the slides
2007: Automated Planning: Theory and Practice is being translated into Chinese
2006: Tsz-Chiu Au's DBS program placed third out of of 165 entrants in the 20th Anniversary IPD Competition's "Noise" category
2006: Austin Parker's Kbott program won a silver medal at the 11th International Computer Games Olympiad
2005: Dana Nau's Invited talk at AAAI-05 - here's an updated copy of the slides
2005: Workshop on Decision Making in Adversarial Domains
2004: Automated Planning: Theory and Practice - the first comprehensive textbook and reference book on automated planning
2002: SHOP2 - this automated-planning system won one of the top four awards in the 2002 International Planning Competition
2002: Process planning for small-batch manufacturing
2000: HICAP - evacuation plan-authoring system incorporating our JSHOP planner
1998: Intelligent Bending Workstation - system that automatically plans sheet-metal bending operations
1998: Domain repository - links to AI-planning and scheduling domains
1997: Bridge Baron - this program used automated-planning techniques to become the 1997 world champion of computer bridge
1995: The UM-Translog planning domain
- A successor, UM-Translog-2, was one of the domains in the 2002 International Planning Competition
1994: IMACS, a manufacturing process-planning system
- A paper on IMACS got a best-paper award in the 1994 ASME Computers in Engineering Conference
1994: Universal Method Composition Planner (UMCP) was the first provably sound and complete HTN planning system

To people looking for the repository of planning and scheduling domains: that page is no longer being maintained, but you can find it here.