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An Overview of the ERE Architecture

The Entropy Reduction Engine (ERE) is an architecture designed to integrated planning, scheduling, and control in the context of closed-loop execution. Planning and scheduling interact such that that scheduling decisions can give rise to further opportunities in planning.

The objective of the project is to create a set of software tools for designing and deploying integrated planning and scheduling systems that are able to effectively control their environments. Traditional AI planning is mainly concerned with the selection of actions. More recently, AI has been concerned with the scheduling of actions; the sequencing of actions with respect to time and resources considerations.

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Sources and References

Drummond, M., Bresina, J., and Kedar, S., "The Entropy Reduction Engine: Integrating Planning, Scheduline, and Control" SIGART Bulletin 2, 1991, pp. 61-5.