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How to model planning and scheduling problems using constraint networks on timelines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2010

Gérard Verfaillie ,
Cédric Pralet  and
Michel Lemaître
Gérard Verfaillie*
Affiliation:
ONERA, 2 av. Édouard Belin, BP 74025, F-31055 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
Cédric Pralet*
Affiliation:
ONERA, 2 av. Édouard Belin, BP 74025, F-31055 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
Michel Lemaître*
Affiliation:
ONERA, 2 av. Édouard Belin, BP 74025, F-31055 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
*
e-mail: Gerard.Verfaillie@onera.fr, Cedric.Pralet@onera.fr, Michel.Lemaitre@onera.fr
e-mail: Gerard.Verfaillie@onera.fr, Cedric.Pralet@onera.fr, Michel.Lemaitre@onera.fr
e-mail: Gerard.Verfaillie@onera.fr, Cedric.Pralet@onera.fr, Michel.Lemaitre@onera.fr
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Abstract

The CNT framework (Constraint Network on Timelines) has been designed to model discrete event dynamic systems and the properties one knows, one wants to verify, or one wants to enforce on them. In this article, after a reminder about the CNT framework, we show its modeling power and its ability to support various modeling styles, coming from the planning, scheduling, and constraint programming communities. We do that by producing and comparing various models of two mission management problems in the aerospace domain: management of a team of unmanned air vehicles and of an Earth observing satellite.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 25 , Special Issue 3: Planning and scheduling , September 2010 , pp. 319 - 336
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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