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Toward the Development of Flexible Mixed-Initiative Scheduling Tools

Stephen Smith and O. Lassila
Workshop Paper, ARPA-Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative Workshop, pp. 145 - 154, February, 1994

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss work aimed at the development of interactive decision-support tools for complex, large-scale scheduling applications. Our approach is grounded on three basic premises: (1) that system organization and decision-support "services" should directly reflect the inherently reactive nature of decision-making in complex scheduling environments, (2) that diversity in the character and requirements of various user tasks will invariably require different specialized scheduling services in different decision-making contexts, and (3) that problem scale and complexity will necessitate user interaction at aggregate, task-oriented levels. We describe DITOPS, a transportation scheduling tool which integrates a hierarchical modeling infra-structure and reactive scheduling methodology with graphical schedule visualization and manipulation capabilities to provide a flexible interactive environment for construction and management of transportation schedules.

BibTeX

@workshop{Smith-1994-16086,
author = {Stephen Smith and O. Lassila},
title = {Toward the Development of Flexible Mixed-Initiative Scheduling Tools},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ARPA-Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative Workshop},
year = {1994},
month = {February},
pages = {145 - 154},
}