{"product_id":"local-search-for-planning-and-scheduling-ecai-2000-workshop-berlin-germany-august-21-2000-revised-papers-9783540428985","title":"Local Search for Planning and Scheduling: Ecai 2000 Workshop, Berlin, Germany, August 21, 2000. Revised Papers","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alexander Nareyek\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWiththeincreasingdeploymentofplanningandschedulingsystems, developers oftenhavetodealwithverylargesearchspaces, real-timeperformancedemands, anddynamicenvironments. Completere?nementmethodsdonotscalewell, - kinglocalsearchmethodstheonlypracticalalternative. Adynamicenvironment alsopromotestheapplicationoflocalsearch, thesearchheuristicsnotnormally beinga?ectedbymodi?cationsofthesearchspace. Furthermore, localsearchis wellsuitedforanytimerequirementsbecausetheoptimizationgoalisimproved iteratively. Suchadvantagesareo?setbytheincompletenessofmostlocalsearch methods, whichmakesitimpossibletoprovetheinconsistencyoroptimalityof thesolutionsgenerated. Popularlocalsearchapproachesincludeevolutionary- gorithms, simulatedannealing, tabusearch, min-con?icts, GSAT, andWalksat. The?rstarticleinthisbook-aninvitedcontributionbyStefanVo -givesan overviewofthesemethods. ThebookisbasedonthecontributionstotheWorkshoponLocalSearchfor Planning\u0026amp;Scheduling, heldonAugust21,2000atthe14thEuropeanCon- renceonArti?cialIntelligence(ECAI2000)inBerlin, Germany. Theworkshop broughttogetherresearchersfromtheplanningandschedulingcommunitiesto explorethesetopicswithrespecttolocalsearchprocedures. Aftertheworkshop, asecondreviewprocessresultedinthecontributionstothepresentvolume. Vo 'soverviewisfollowedbytwoarticles, byHamiezandHaoandGerevini andSerina, onspeci?c\"classical\"combinatorialsearchproblems. Thearticleby HamiezandHaoaddressestheproblemofsports-leaguescheduling, presenting results achieved by a tabu search method based on a neighborhood of value swaps. GereviniandSerina'sarticleaddressesthetopicthatdominatestherest ofthebook: actionplanning. Itbuildsontheirpreviousworkonlocalsearch onplanninggraphs, presentinganewsearchguidanceheuristicwithdynamic parametertuning. Thenextsetofarticlesdealwithplanningsystemsthatareabletoinc- porateresourcereasoning. The?rstarticle, ofwhichIamtheauthor, makesit clearwhyconventionalplanningsystemscannotproperlyhandleplanningwith resourcesandgivesanoverviewoftheconstraint-basedExcaliburagent'spl- ningsystem, whichdoesnothavetheserestrictions. Thenextthreearticlesare aboutNASAJPL'sASPEN\/CASPERsystem. The?rstone-byChien, Knight, andRabideau-focusesonthereplanningcapabilitiesoflocalsearchmethods, presentingtwoempiricalstudiesinwhichacontinuousplanningprocessclearly outperformsarestartstrategy. Thenextarticle, byEngelhardtandChien, shows howlearningcanbeusedtospeedupthesearchforaplan. Thegoalisto?nda setofsearchheuristicsthatguidethesearchaswellaspossible. Thelastarticle inthisblock-byKnight, Rabideau, andChien-proposesanddemonstrates, a technique for aggregating single search moves so that distant states can be reachedmoreeasily. VI Preface Thelastthreearticlesinthisbookaddresstopicsthatarenotdirectlyrelated tolocalsearch, butthedescribedmethodsmakeverylocaldecisionsduringthe search. RefanidisandVlahavasdescribeextensionstotheGRTplanner, e. g., a hill-climbingstrategyforactionselection. Theextensionsresultinmuchbetter performancethanwiththeoriginalGRTplanner. Thesecondarticle-byO- india, Sebastia, and Marzal - presents a planning algorithm that successively re?nes a start graph by di?erent phases, e. g., a phase to guarantee comp- teness. Inthelastarticle, HiraishiandMizoguchipresentasearchmethodfor constructingaroutemap. Constraintswithrespecttomemoryandtimecanbe incorporatedintothesearchprocess. Iwishtoexpressmygratitudetothemembersoftheprogramcommittee, whoactedasreviewersfortheworkshopandthisvolume. Iwouldalsoliketo thank all those who helped to make this workshop a success - in\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614313857175,"sku":"9783540428985","price":5649.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783540428985.webp?v=1775092605","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/local-search-for-planning-and-scheduling-ecai-2000-workshop-berlin-germany-august-21-2000-revised-papers-9783540428985","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}