Template Enhancement Through Knowledge Acquisition (TEMPLE)

: In this contract they developed Constable, a tool that enables users to extend existing templates by adding new constraints to be checked as they create plans from those templates. The constraints acquired specify desired qualities of the final plan, such as requiring the presence of a fires task for each attack task plan, or that the use of a resource or the overall cost be under a given threshold. Initially, the system has a pre-defined suite of constraints relevant to the domain that can be used to check a plan as it is being created by the user. The system also has an easy-to-use interface based on constrained English that guides users step by step (in a wizard-style interaction) to define additional new constraints that they would like the system to check.