O-Plan Distribution Read Me File
Updated: Tue May 30 16:18:21 2000 by Jeff Dalton
(c) Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, AIAI, University of Edinburgh

Version: O-Plan 3.3

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Documentation included with the Release

Information on unpacking, installing and initial testing of O-Plan
is provided the "INSTALL" file.

The following documents are provided in the release iamge in
PostScript form in subdirectories of the "documentation" directory

  - User Guide
  - TF Manual

Additional documentation is included in the directory "source/doc".

Information on interfacing other systems to O-Plan is provided in
the following files:

  source/doc/ta-interface
  source/doc/ta-interface-quick-reference

Information on using a Web browser to provide a "COA evaluation matrix"
interface to O-Plan can be found in:

  source/doc/http-mode

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Support Information and Materials

Information and materials which support the release can be found at 
https://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan/release

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Documents Describing O-Plan

Tate, A., Drabble, B. and Dalton, J. (1996)
O-Plan: a Knowledge-Based Planner and its Application to Logistics
- in Advanced Planning Technology, Morgan Kaufmann, (Tate, A. ed.),
AAAI Press, May 1996.
https://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan/documents/1996/96-arpi-oplan-and-logistics.ps

A collection of papers on the O-Plan system was provided in the
following Technical Report.  These papers are all available via
https://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan/documents/index.html

Tate, A., Drabble, B. and Dalton, J.  An Engineer's Approach to the
Application of Knowledge Based Planning and Scheduling Techniques to
Logistics, USAF Rome Laboratory Technical Report RL-TR-95-235,
December 1995.

Demonstration domain descriptions in O-Plan's Task Formalism (TF)
can be found via https://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan/release/tf

PlanWorld Viewers based on AutoCAD as released with version 2.3 are
provided in https://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan/release/2.3/ac

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DARPA-Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative

The O-Plan project is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) and Rome Laboratory, Air Force Materiel
Command, USAF, under grant number F30602-95-1-0022. The O-Plan project
is monitored by Dr. Northrup Fowler III at the USAF Rome Laboratory.
The US Government is authorised to reproduce and distribute reprints
for Governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation
hereon.  The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the
authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing
official policies or endorsements, either express or implied, of
DARPA, Rome Laboratory or the US Government.

For a description of work in the Planning Initiative see
https://arpi.isx.com/ and the following book:

Tate, A. (ed.) Advanced Planning Technology, Morgan Kaufmann, May 1996
https://www.aaai.org/Publications/Press/Catalog/tate.html

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O-Plan 2.3

O-Plan Release 2.3 (System Date: 12-Jul-95, Release Image Date:
13-Jul-95) was a full demonstration system including a simple task
assignment agent/menu interface, a planner agent and a demonstration
of an execution agent. The release contained AutoCAD based PlanWorld
Viewers for some domains. The system was released only for use within
the DARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative.

Release 2.3 materials have been placed at
https://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan/release/2.3 to allow future
demonstration use and as an archive of previous demonstration material
now removed from the later releases (version 3.1 onwards).  The O-Plan
2.3 release is not supported in any way and no licence to use it is
provided.

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Contacting the O-Plan Team

Web page: https://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan
E-mail:   [email protected]
Address:  O-Plan Team
          Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
          University of Edinburgh
          80 South Bridge
          Edinburgh EH1 1HN, UK
Tel:      (Int. +44) 131 650 2732
Fax:      (Int. +44) 131 650 6513