NDLI: Getting from here to there: interactive planning and agent execution for optimizing travel

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Ambite, José Luis Knoblock, Craig A. Muslea, Maria Oh, Jean Barish, Greg Minton, Steven
Abstract	Planning and monitoring a trip is a common but complicated human activity. Creating an itinerary is nontrivial because it requires coordination with existing schedules and making a variety of interdependent choices. Once planned, there are many possible events that can affect the plan, such as schedule changes or flight cancellations, and checking for these possible events requires time and effort. In this paper, we describe how Heracles and Theseus, two information gathering and monitoring tools that we built, can be used to simplify this process. Heracles is a hierarchical constraint planner that aids in interactive itinerary development by showing how a particular choice (e.g., destination airport) affects other choices (e.g., possible modes of transportation, available airlines, etc.). Heracles builds on an information agent platform, called Theseus, that provides the technology for efficiently executing agents for information gathering and monitoring tasks. In this paper we present the technologies underlying these systems and describe how they are applied to build a state-of-the-art travel system.
Starting Page	862
Ending Page	869
Page Count	8
ISBN	0262511290
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2002-07-28
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
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Getting from here to there: interactive planning and agent execution for optimizing travel