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30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Volume 5: Advanced Technology Track
Maui, Hawaii
January 03-January 06
ISBN: 0-8186-7743-0
Douglas Smith, Rome Laboratory
Stephen Westfold, Kestrel Institute
We report on a successful project for transference of advanced planning and scheduling technology for outage management, a collaboration between Rome Laboratory, the Electrical Power Research Institute, Kaman Science, and Kestrel Institute, as part of DOD's dual-use program. The main goal of the project was to evaluate the use of transformational approaches and AI technology to solve real-world planning and scheduling problems involving complex constraints. ROMAN (Rome Lab Outage Manager) is the prototype system that was developed as a result of this project. ROMAN's main innovation compared to the current state of the art of outage management tools is its integrated approach to outage management automatically enforcing safety constraints during the planning and scheduling phase. Another innovative aspect of ROMAN is its generation of more robust schedules that are feasible over time windows. In other words, ROMAN generates a family of schedules by assigning time intervals as start times to activities rather than single point start times, without affecting the overall duration of theproject.
Citation:
Carla P. Gomes, Douglas Smith, Stephen Westfold, "A Transformational Approach Applied to Outage Management of Nuclear Power Plants," hicss, vol. 5, pp.658, 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Volume 5: Advanced Technology Track, 1997
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