AIAI Presentation

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• Informatics MSc Course
• PLAN Automated Planning
• The aim of this course is to provide
• a solid grounding in artificial intelligence
  techniques and algorithms for planning, with
• a comprehensive view of the wide spectrum of
  different problems and approaches,
• including their underlying theory and their
  applications
• http//www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/plan/
• http//www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/teaching/plan/

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AI Planning in Productive Use
http//www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/plan/
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Defining AI Planning

• planning
• explicit deliberation process that chooses and
  organizes actions by anticipating their outcomes
• aims at achieving some pre-stated objectives
• AI planning
• computational study of this deliberation process

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Course Description

• Understand and formalize different types of
  planning problems
• Discuss the theoretical and practical
  applicability of different approaches
• Have the basic know how to design and implement
  planning systems
• Know how to use planning technology for projects
  in different application domains
• Ability to review planning literature relevant to
  an area covered in the course

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Potential MSc Projects

• A Human/Robot/Sensor System Team for an Emergency
  Response Task
• Teamwork for Emergency Response
• Controlling Avatars in a MMORPG
• Self Proposed? Come and Talk with us.

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• Prof. Austin Tate
• Director, Artificial Intelligence Applications
  Institute
• Professor of Knowledge-Based Systems, University
  of Edinburgh
• Research on advanced knowledge and planning
  technologies, especially for use in emergency
  response and search and rescue.

• Dr. Gerhard Wickler
• Research Fellow, Artificial Intelligence
  Applications Institute
• Research on capability representations for
  intelligent agents, AI search algorithms,
  multi-agent planning in search and rescue
  applications.

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