MAKING THE PILBARA BLEND: AGILE MINE SCHEDULING THROUGH CONTINGENT PLANNING

Multi-objective short-term production scheduling for open-pit mines: a hierarchical decomposition-based algorithm

Michelle Blom, Adrian R Pearce, Peter J Stuckey

2018-12-02

This article presents a novel algorithm for solving a short-term open-pit production-scheduling problem in which several objective..

Short-term scheduling of an open-pit mine with multiple objectives

Michelle Blom, Adrian R Pearce, Peter J Stuckey

2017-01-01

This article presents a novel algorithm for the generation of multiple short-term production schedules for an open-pit mine, in wh..

A Decomposition-Based Algorithm for the Scheduling of Open-Pit Networks over Multiple Time Periods

M Blom, A Pearce, P Stuckey

2016-01-01

We consider the multiple-time-period, short-term production scheduling problem for a network of multiple open-pit mines and ports...

Sequencing operator counts

TO Davies, AR Pearce, P Stuckey, N Lipovetzky

2016-01-01

Copyright 2016 AAAI, all rights reserved.). Operator-counting is a recently developed framework for analysing and integrating many..

Situation Calculus Game Structures and GDL

Giuseppe De Giacomo, Yves Lesperance, Adrian R Pearce

2016-01-01

We present a situation calculus-based account of multiplayers synchronous games in the style of general game playing. Such games c..

Optimizing Long-Running Action Histories in the Situation Calculus Through Search

C Ewin, A PEARCE, S Vassos

2015-12-27

Agents are frequently required to perform numerous, complicated interactions with the environment around them, necessitating compl..

Asynchronous knowledge with hidden actions in the situation calculus

Ryan F Kelly, Adrian R Pearce

2015-04-01

We present a powerful new account of multi-agent knowledge in the situation calculus and an automated reasoning procedure for know..

Approximate Uni-directional Benders Decomposition

Christina N Burt, Nir Lipovetzky, Adrian R Pearce, Peter J Stuckey

2015-01-01

We examine a decomposition approach to find good quality feasible solutions. In particular, we study a method to reduce the search..

Optimisation and Relaxation for Multiagent Planning in the Situation Calculus

TO Davies, AR Pearce, PJ Stuckey, H SONDERGAARD

2015-01-01

The situation calculus can express rich agent behaviours and goals and facilitates the reduction of complex planning problems to t..

Scheduling Tools for Open-Pit Mining Operations

M BLOM, C Burt, N Lipovetzky, A Pearce, P Stuckey

2015-01-01

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Scheduling with fixed maintenance, shared resources and nonlinear feedrate constraints: A mine planning case study

CN Burt, N Lipovetzky, AR Pearce, PJ Stuckey

2015-01-01

Given a short term mining plan, the task for an operational mine planner is to determine how the equipment in the mine should be u..

Sequencing Operator Counts

TO Davies, AR Pearce, P STUCKEY, N Lipovetzky

2015-01-01

Operator-counting is a recently developed framework for analysing and integrating many state-of-the-art heuristics for planning us..

Synchronous Games in the Situation Calculus

G De Giacomo, Y Lespérance, A PEARCE

2015-01-01

We develop a situation calculus-based account of multi-player synchronous games. These are represented as action theories called s..

A Decomposition-Based Heuristic for Collaborative Scheduling in a Network of Open-Pit Mines

Michelle L Blom, Christina N Burt, Adrian R Pearce, Peter J Stuckey

2014-09-01

We consider the short-term production scheduling problem for a network of multiple open-pit mines and ports. Ore produced at each ..

Fragment-Based Planning Using Column Generation

TO Davies, AR Pearce, PJ Stuckey, H Sondergaard

2014-01-01

We introduce a novel algorithm for temporal planning in Golog using shared resources, and describe the Bulk Freight Rail Schedulin..

Planning for Mining Operations with Time and Resource Constraints

N Lipovetzky, CN Burt, A Pearce, PJ Stuckey

2014-01-01

We study a daily mine planning problem where, given a set of blocks we wish to mine, our task is to generate a mining sequence for..

Transforming Situation Calculus Action Theories for Optimised Reasoning

C EWIN, A Pearce, S Vassos

2014-01-01

Among the most frequent reasoning tasks in the situation calculus are projection queries that query the truth of conditions in a f..