Brad Clement is a senior member of the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, where he is developing methods for coordinating planning and scheduling for single and multiple spacecraft/missions.

Brad Clement received a bachelor degree in computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he was a member of the Distributed Intelligent Agents Group. Before graduate school he worked as a software research engineer for Matsushita Electric Works (National/Panasonic) for two years in Osaka, Japan.

Research Statement

My research is centered on developing techniques and software that leverage models of human domain knowledge to coordinate collaborating or competing agents (software, robotic, or human) in performing real-time planning, scheduling, and execution tasks in an uncertain or partially known environment. My interests include artificial intelligence, multiagent coordination, robotics, abstraction, planning, scheduling, execution, distributed systems, real-time systems, integrated AI, control architectures, AI in games, …

I am currently leading the development of an optimal solver for scheduling a team of agents' tasks with uncertain outcomes and duration. This solver has continued to be used to evaluate distributed scheduling software developed for the DARPA Coordinators Program.

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• Old student home page at U. Michigan


• All Publications

Selected Publications

• Bradley J. Clement, Edmund H. Durfee, Anthony C. Barrett. Abstract Reasoning for Planning and Coordination. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 28, 453--515, 2007. (PDF, HTML)
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• Steven R. Schaffer, Bradley J. Clement, Steve A. Chien. Probabilistic Reasoning for Plan Robustness. Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005. (PDF, powerpoint presentation)
CL#05-1025
• Bradley J. Clement, Mark D. Johnston. The Deep Space Network Scheduling Problem. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, 2005. (PDF, powerpoint presentation)
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• Bradley J. Clement, Anthony C. Barrett. Continual Coordination through Shared Activities. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2003. (PDF, powerpoint presentation)
CL#02-3054
• Bradley J. Clement, Anthony C. Barrett. Coordination Challenges for Autonomous Spacecraft. AAMAS-02 workshop notes on Toward an Application Science: MAS Problem Spaces and Their Implications to Achieving Globally Coherent Behavior, 2002. (PDF, powerpoint presentation)
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• Bradley J. Clement, Anthony C. Barrett, Gregg R. Rabideau, Edmund H. Durfee. Using Abstraction in Planning and Scheduling. Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Planning, 2001. (postscript--© Springer-Verlag, errata, powerpoint presentation)
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Tutorials

• Stephen F. Smith, Bradley J. Clement. Keith S. Decker, Coordinating Distributed Planning and Scheduling Agents. Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), 2007. (abstract
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• Bradley J. Clement. Multi-Agent Planning & Scheduling. International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2006. (abstract, pdf handouts, powerpoint)
CL#04-2505
• Bradley J. Clement, Keith S. Decker. Multi-Agent Planning: a Survey of Research and Applications.
  • Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005.
  • Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005.
  • Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2005.
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• Bradley J. Clement. Multi-Agent Planning. Seventh Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA), 2004. (abstract, pdf handouts, powerpoint)
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Some Recent Activities

A special issue in Multiagent and Grid Systems, an International Journal

AAMAS 2007 Workshop on Coordinating Agents' Plans and Schedules

AAAI-06 Workshop on Auction Mechanisms for Robot Coordination (panel slides)

ICAPS 2005 Workshop on Multiagent Planning and Scheduling

Links:

• JPL, Artificial Intelligence Group
• JPL, Section 367, Exploration Systems Autonomy
• JPL, Division 36, Information Technologies and Software Systems
• Autonomy at JPL
• JPL
• NASA
• California Institute of Technology