Progress on the Collaborative Planning Model

This paper describes the work on the Collaborative Planning Model in Project 12. An hypothesis is presented to attempt to unify the different planning doctrines under a common model. This has guided the development of a generic planning OWL ontology containing aspects of constraint-based reasoning and teamwork. The ontology also models “reasoning steps” and the dependencies between expertise, issues and decisions. The relations between reasoning steps begin to provide a vocabulary for the exploration of different doctrines. An example of collaborative planning, execution and replanning has been used to exercise the ontology, and some initial tools have been generated as a plugin to Protégé to assist the input, analysis and diagramming of plans.