O-P/sup 3/: Supporting the planning process using open planning process panels
John R. Levine, Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton · IEEE Intelligent Systems and their Applications · 2000
The authors introduce Open Planning Process Panels (O-P/sup 3/), which are based on explicit models of the planning process and can coordinate the development and evaluation of multipole courses of action. O-P/sup 3/ can coordinate the workflow between multiple agents and visualize the development and evaluation of multiple courses of action (COAs). We have used O-P/sup 3/ to implement two real applications: the Air Campaign Planning Process Panel (ACP3) and O-Plan, a two-user, mixed-initiative Web demonstration of planning. In ACP3, O-P/sup 3/ helps build a visualization panel for a complex multiagent planning and evaluation demonstration, which uses 11 different software components and involves several users. In O-Plan, O-P/sup 3/ technology enables the development and evaluation of multiple COAs by a commander, a planning staff member, and an O-Plan automated planning agent. This work has an impact on a number of important research areas outside of planning, including workflow support.