Thompson, Carl P.This report is an account of an undergraduate student participating for two months in the research and development of a web-based, planning and scheduling application. The content contains details of web-application architecture, analysis of development environments, and aspects of a scheduling application's components. Also discussed is a student's perspective on the use of web-based technology in the information age.en-USoptimizationdistributed information processingmulti-user systemsrobust information processingpath planning,,Thesis