First six-monthly periodic report

Workpackage progress report for Workpackage No.: 7
Laboratory of Engineering and Management Intelligence

PLANET II

SZTAKI participated in a successful proposal of PLANET II. PLANET II is the continuation of PLANET – the European Network of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Planning sponsored by EC. It is the coordinating organisation for European research and development in the field of Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling and in particular aims to promote the transfer of this leading-edge technology into European industry.

PLANET II is sponsored by the Commission for a period of 2 years with an overall budget of 500.000 Euro. Its activity is closely related to Key Action 2 of the IST programme, which addresses new methods of work (including e-work) and e-commerce. Hence, members of PLANET II focus on the exploitation of planning and scheduling technology in this area.

Nodes of PLANET are European universities, research centres, and industrial companies working in the

field of Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling. Currently, PLANET has 47 nodes from 13 European countries.