Program

The workshop will be held on Sunday, September 14th, 2008.



9:00-9:15Welcome - Introduction to workshop
9:15-10:05Invited Talk: Tools and Techniques for Achieving Resource Balanced Long Range Plans for the Hubble Space Telescope
Mark Giuliano
10:05-10:35Coffee break
10:35-11:00Using Automated Planning and Scheduling for Onboard Rover Commanding
Tara Estlin, Daniel M. Gaines, Caroline Chouinard, Rebecca Castano, Benjamin Bornstein, Michele Judd and Robert C. Anderson
11:00-11:25HTN Planning with Quantitative Preferences via Heuristic Search
Shirin Sohrabi, Jorge Baier, Sheila A. McIlraith
11:25-11:50A Distance Measure Between Goals for Oversubscription Planning
Angel Garcia-Olaya, Tomas de la Rosa, Daniel Borrajo
11:50-12:05Real-time Bayesian Search Control for MDPs
Scott Sanner, Robby Goetschalckx, Kurt Driessens
12:05-13:30Lunch break
13:30-13:55Runtime Goal Selection with Oversubscribed Resources
Gregg Rabideau, Steve Chien
13:55-14:20Advising Busy Users on How to Cut Corners in Uncertain Settings
Pradeep Varakantham, Stephen F. Smith
14:20-14:35Optimal Net-Benefit with BDDs
Stefan Edelkamp, Peter Kissmann
14:35-14:50Learning to Improve Earth Observation Flight Planning
Robert A. Morris, Nikunj Oza, Leslie Keely, Elif Kurklu
15:00-15:30Coffee break
15:30Workshop wrap-up