Bernd Schattenberg

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Contact Information

	Bernd Schattenberg Institut für Künstliche Intelligenz Universität Ulm D-89069 Ulm
	(+49) 731 50 24259			(+49) 731 50 24119
	bernd.schattenberg@uni-ulm.de			O 27 / 447

Research Interests

• Planning and Scheduling, especially extensions to Hierarchical Task Network Planning for complex real world applications
• Multi-agent systems and empirical evaluation of agent architectures

Projects

	PLANET The European Network of Excellence in AI Planning [Node-Description]
	The project PANDA...
James	Java based Agent Modelling Environment for Simulation

Publications

• B. Schattenberg, J. Bidot, and S. Biundo, On the Construction and Evaluation of Flexible Plan-Refinement Strategies. In: J. Hertzberg, M. Beetz, and R. Englert (eds.): Proceedings of the 30th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2007), LNAI 4667, 367-381, Osnabrück, Germany, 2007.
• B. Schattenberg and S. Biundo, A Unifying Framework for Hybrid Planning and Scheduling. In: C. Freksa, M. Kohlhase, and K. Schill (eds.) Proceedings of the 29th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2006), LNAI 4314, 361-373, Bremen, Germany, 2007. Springer.
• B. Schattenberg, S. Balzer, and S. Biundo. Semantic Web Technology as a Basis for Planning and Scheduling Systems. In: J. Sauer (ed.) Proceedings of the 20th Workshop ``Planen und Konfigurieren´´ (PuK'06), 26-36. University of Bremen, 2006. ISBN 3-88722-670-4.
• B. Schattenberg, S. Balzer, and S. Biundo, Knowledge-based Middleware as an Architecture for Planning and Scheduling Systems. In: D. Long, S. F. Smith, D. Borrajo, and L. McCluskey (eds.) Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-06), 422-425. AAAI Press, 2006.
• B. Schattenberg, A. Weigl, and S. Biundo, Hybrid Planning Using Flexible Strategies. In: U. Furbach (ed.) Proceedings of the 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2005), LNAI 3698, Springer, 258-272, 2005.
• S. Biundo, R. Holzer, and B. Schattenberg, Project Planning Under Temporal Uncertainty. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Planning and Scheduling: Bridging Theory to Practice, held in conjunction with: The 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'04), Valencia, Spain, August 2004.
  Also available in: L. Castillo, D. Borrajo, M. A. Salido, and A. Oddi (eds.) Planning, Scheduling, and Constraint Satisfaction: From Theory to Practice, volume 117 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pages 189-198. IOS Press, 2005.
• S. Biundo, R. Holzer, and B. Schattenberg, Dealing with Continuous Resources in AI Planning. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space, ESOC, Germany, June 2004, ESA WPP-228, 213-218, 2004.
• B. Schattenberg and S. Biundo, On the Identification and Use of Hierarchical Resources in Planning and Scheduling. In: M. Ghallab, J. Hertzberg and P. Traverso (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on AI Planning & Scheduling, Toulouse, France, April 2002, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, 263-272, 2002.
• S. Biundo and B. Schattenberg, From Abstract Crisis to Concrete Relief: A Preliminary Report on Combining State Abstraction and HTN Planning. To appear in Proceedings of the European Conference on Planning, Toledo, Spain, September 2001.
• B. Schattenberg and A.M. Uhrmacher, Planning Agents in James. In: A.M. Uhrmacher, P.A. Fishwick, B.P. Zeigler (eds.) Special Issue: Agents in Modeling and Simulation: Exploiting the Metaphor. Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 89, No. 2, 158-173, 2001.
• A.M. Uhrmacher, B. Schattenberg, Agents in Discrete Event Simulation. In: Andre Bargiela and Eugene Kerckhoffs (eds.) Proceedings of the 10TH European Simulation Symposium ``Simulation in Industry - Simulation Technology: Science and Art'' (ESS'98), October 26-28, Nottingham, SCS Publications, Ghent, 129-136, 1998.
• B. Schattenberg, Agentenmodellierung und -evaluierung im Rahmen eines objektorientierten verteilten Simulationssystems, Diploma thesis (in German), Fakultät für Informatik, Universität Ulm, 1998.

Planning Resources and Magazines

• The reference for planning related information: PLANET, the European Network of Excellence in AI Planning
  • The Planning Repository contains references to and information about applications of planning and scheduling
  • The PLANET Online Research Database gives an overview over planning and scheduling systems, benchmarks, etc.
• Planning from scratch: Automated Planning: Theory and Practice, the standard AI planning textbook
• Planning in the News: JAIR, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, IEEE Intelligent Systems, and Artificial Intelligence
• Another good place to go to is the Electronic Colloquium on Planning and Scheduling.
• Please note the changed URL of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (PlanSig): http://planning.cis.strath.ac.uk/plansig/.

Systems of Special Interest

• HTN planning (Hierarchical Task Network planning),
  • UMCP (Universal Method Composition Planner) and
  • SHOP (Simple Hierarchical Ordered Planner) at the University of Maryland.
• SEPIA Planning group does hybrid planning at the University of Granada, Spain.
• O-Plan, the Open Planning Architecture at the University of Edinburgh.
• SIPE-2, the System for Interactive Planning and Execution at SRI International.
• The Remote Agent Experiment within NASA's Deep Space 1 mission.

Conferences and Workshops

Dates and pointers to past conferences

• German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI)
  KI 01 (September 2001, Wien, Austria), KI 04 (September 2004, Ulm), KI 05 (September 2005, Koblenz), KI 06, (June 2006, Bremen), KI 07, (September 2007, Osnabrück)
• European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
  ECAI 2000 (August 2000, Berlin, Germany), ECAI 02 (July 2002, Lyon, France), ECAI 04 (August 2004, Valencia, Spain), ECAI 2006 (August 2006, Trento, Italy)
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
  IJCAI 99 (July/August 1999, Stockholm, Sweden), IJCAI 01 (August 2001, Seattle, USA) , IJCAI 03 (August 2003, Acapulco, Mexico), IJCAI 05, (August 2005, Edinburgh, UK), IJCAI 07, (January 2007, Hyderabad, India)
• European Conference on Planning (ECP)
  ECP 99 (September 1999, Durham, UK), ECP 01 (September 2001, Toledo, Spain)
• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling Systems (AIPS)
  AIPS 00 (April 2000, Breckenridge, USA), AIPS 02 (April 2002, Toulouse, France)
• International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)
  ICAPS 03 (June 2003, Trento, Italy), ICAPS 04 (June 2004, Whistler, Canada), ICAPS 05, (June 2005, Monterey, USA), ICAPS 06, (June 2006, Ambleside, UK), ICAPS 07, (September 2007, Providence, USA)

Dates and pointers for 2008 and beyond

• 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2008), July 21-25, 2008, Patras, Greece
• International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'08), September 14-18, 2008, Sydney, Australia
• 31st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2008), September 23-26, Kaiserslautern, Germany
• 22nd Workshop on Planning, Scheduling, Design and Configuration (PuK 2008), September 23, 2008, Kaiserslautern, Germany
• 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), July 11-17, 2009, Pasadena, California, USA
• International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'09), Thessaloniki, Greece