Despite the potential, the use of simulation technology at US railroads appears to be lagging behind that in manufacturing and other transportation industries. This paper describe...
A numberof strategies exist for the recovery from execution-timeplan failures. Onedimensionin whichthese strategies differ is the degree of dependenceon the reliability andavailab...
Informationgathering requires locating and integrating data froma set of distributed informationsources. These sources maycontain overlapping data and can comefrom different types...
Protection monitors synthesized from plan causal structure provide execution systems with information necessary to detect potential failures early during execution. By detecting e...
The structure of problem-solving discourse in the expert advising setting can be modeled by adding a layer of metaplans to a plan-based model of the task domain. Classes of metapl...