This article describes a methodology for building integtated planning-reacting systems. The
work is based on a formal approach to building the reactive component (the reactor); this
allows us to formalize the concept of a planner improving a reactive system. Our novel
planner design emphasizes how the planner can use the reactor to focus its reasoning, as
well as how the reactor is guided by the planner to improve its behavior. The reactive
component (the reactor) uses a process-based model of robot computation, the RS model …

Open data analysis platforms are being adopted to support collaboration in science and
business. Studies suggest that analytic work in an enterprise occurs in a complex ecosystem
of people, data, and software working in a coordinated manner. These studies also point to
friction between the elements of this ecosystem that reduces user productivity and quality of
work. LabBook is an open, social, and collaborative data analysis platform designed
explicitly to reduce this friction and accelerate discovery. Its goal is to help users leverage …