Managing Multiple Tasks in Complex, Dynamic Environments

Sketchy planners are designed to achieve goals in realistically complex, time-pressured, and uncertain task environments. However, the ability to manage multiple, potentially interacting tasks in such environments requires extensions to the functionality these systems typically provide. This paper identifies a number of factors affecting how interacting tasks should be prioritized, interrupted, and resumed, and then describes a sketchy planner called APEX that takes account of these factors when managing multiple tasks.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Michael Freed
• Keywords: AAAI 1998, Environments Requires Extensions, Intelligent Agents, Sketchy Planner, Uncertain Task Environments