Designing collaborative automated planners for dynamically changing environments: Supporting agile adaption to changing priorities

In this paper we describe a collaborative automated scheduler that utilizes innovative visualizations and mixed initiative techniques to enable users to more effectively uncover, communicate and dynamically revise priorities as circumstances change. The system includes visualizations to foster improved situation awareness of available resources vs. total demand on those resources at any given point in time, as well as improved shared situation awareness of relative priorities of movement requirements. It is designed to facilitate more effective communication and balancing of priorities within and across organizational boundaries, as well as to accommodate changes in requirements and priorities that inevitably arise over time.