Hybrid Planning Using Flexible Strategies

Proceedings of the
28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2005)
Koblenz, Germany
September 11-14, 2005

In this paper we present a highly modular planning system architecture. It is based on a proper formal account of hybrid planning, which allows for the formal definition of (flexible) planning strategies. Groups of modules for flaw detection and plan refinement provide the basic functionalities of a planning system. The concept of explicit strategy modules serves to formulate and implement strategies that orchestrate the basic modules. This way a variety of fixed plan generation procedures as well as novel flexible planning strategies can easily be implemented and evaluated. We present a number of such strategies and show some first comparative performance results.

Online Copy

The paper is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/10.1007/11551263_21 via SpringerLink

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BibTeX Entry

@InProceedings{schattenberg:weigl:biundo:05,
  author = 	 {Bernd Schattenberg and Andreas Weigl and Susanne Biundo},
  title = 	 {Hybrid Planning Using Flexible Strategies},
  booktitle ={KI 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 
              Proceedings of the 28th German Conference on 
              Artificial Intelligence}, 
  editor =   {Ulrich Furbach},
  series=    {Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence},
  volume=    {3698},
  pages = 	 {258-272},
  year = 	 {2005},
  address =  {Koblenz, Germany},
  month = 	 sep,
  publisher ={Springer},
  note =     {ISBN 3-540-28761-2}
}