Publication - Leveraging Uncertainty in Design-to-Criteria Scheduling

Authors:	Wagner, Thomas A., Garvey, Alan J. and Lesser, Victor R.
Title:	Leveraging Uncertainty in Design-to-Criteria Scheduling
Abstract:	Design-to-Criteria scheduling is the process of custom building a schedule to meet dynamic client goal criteria, using a task model that describes alternate ways to achieve tasks and sub-tasks. Formerly, Design-to-Criteria scheduling relied on simple expected value characterizations of method outcomes. The recent addition of uncertainty to the task model and its ubiquitous application in Design-to-Criteria scheduling has greatly improved four aspects of the scheduling process: modeling of tasks and task interactions, evaluation of schedules and schedule approximations, focusing of scheduling activities on more certain schedules when uncertainty reduction is important to the client, and construction of schedules that have more certainty and perhaps employ multiple ways to achieve a particular task to improve certainty. We describe the uncertainty representation and how it improves task models and the scheduling process, and provide empirical examples of uncertainty reduction in action.
Publication:	Under Review, also a version is available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1997-11
Date:	February 1997
Sources:	PS: ftp://ftp.cs.umass.edu/pub/techrept/techreport/1997/UM-CS-1997-011.ps PDF: /Documents/UM-CS-1997-011.pdf
Reference:	Wagner, Thomas A., Garvey, Alan J. and Lesser, Victor R.. Leveraging Uncertainty in Design-to-Criteria Scheduling. Under Review, also a version is available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1997-11. February 1997.
`bibtex`:	@article{Wagner-15, author = "Thomas A. Wagner and Alan J. Garvey and Victor R. Lesser", title = "{Leveraging Uncertainty in Design-to-Criteria Scheduling}", journal = "Under Review, also a version is available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1997-11", month = "February", year = "1997", url = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/15", }