Tik-76.275 Seminar on Knowledge Engineering (4 credits)

The subject of the Knowldge Engineering Seminar (Tietämysktekniikan seminaari) in the fall 1997 is "Planning". The focus will be on the planning techniques that have been studied in the field of artificial intelligence. In the seminar we try to cover the different aspects of the planning field.

Simply stating, planning is a task of determining a set of activities and the order of their execution so that given goals will be reached.

Much of the research on planning is fairly theoretical and the algorithms as of yet are impractical. However, planning techniques have potential applications in many important fields: project management, robot behavior, business strategy, software agents, and so on.

Format of the seminar

Each participant has to choose a subject for a seminar work from a list of topics. There are three different tasks that each participant must do in the seminar:

Make talk about one of the papers in the seminar material (A)
Write a seminar paper concerning the topic (B)
Give a presentaiton on the seminar paper in the workshop in the end of the seminar (C)

Each task is given a grade in the scale 0-5 and the overall grade is determined with the formula round((A+2B+C)/4).
In addition, to pass the seminar each participan must be present in 75% of the seminar gatherings, in the minimum.

The workshop will be a one-day event in the end of the seminar (December, 2). It will be held in the Sjökulla residental course center in Kirkkonummi.

The seminar paper will be written in HTML-format according to the given HTML-template.The length of the paper should be about 10-12 A4 pages. The papers will be left to the homepage of the seminar. When possible, the paper should have hyperlinks to the references that are available in electronic form.

Schedule

The weekly meetings of the seminar will be held on Thursdays 17-20 in seminar room Y313.

Date	Talk	Report
thu 25.09	Introduction (Seppo Törmä)
thu 02.10	---
thu 09.10	Early planning theories (Lauri Siponen)
thu 16.10	STRIP-type partial-order planners (Jing Yang) Plannins as refinement search (Juha Lindström)
thu 23.10	Hierarchical planning (Tero Hagström) Case-based planning (Juho Rousu)	deadline for the outline of the talk
thu 30.10	Distributed planning (Martti Meri) Integrating planning and execution (Seppo Kuikka)	feedback about the outline
thu 06.11	Planning in games (Jussi Tella)
thu 13.11		deadline of the report
thu 20.11
thu 27.11		feedback about the report
tue 02.12	Symposium (Sjökulla)
thu 11.12	---	deadline of the final version of the report

Contact persons

Seppo Törmä and Markku Syrjänen