Artificial intelligence and operations research. challenges and opportunities in planning and scheduling

Both the artificial intelligence (AI) and the operations research (OR) communities are interested in developing techniques for solving hard combinatorial problems, in particular in the domain of planning and scheduling. AI approaches encompass a rich collection of knowledge representation formalisms for dealing with a wide variety of real-world problems. Some of the different techniques from AI and OR for planning and scheduling are discussed and compared, highlighting potential synergistic benefits from combining the techniques.