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title: "Generating Project Networks"
authors:
  - "Austin Tate"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/209"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/0209.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1977
pages: "888-892"
track: "Applications"
keywords:
---

# Generating Project Networks

Austin Tate

*Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 888-892.

## Abstract

Procedures for optimization and resource allocation in Operations Research first require a project network for the task to be specified. The specification of a project network is at present done in an intuitive way. AI work in plan formation has developed formalisms for specifying primitive activities, and recent work by Sacerdoti (1975a) has developed a planner able to generate a plan as a partially ordered network of actions. The "planning: a joint AI/OR approach" project at Edinburgh has extended such work and provided a hierarchic planner which can aid in the generation of project networks. This paper describes the planner (NONLIN) and the Task Formalism (TF) used to hierarchically specify a domain.