Proceedings of the Second Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems Conference
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Edited by Kristian Hammond
June 13–15, 1994, Chicago, Illinois. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This proceedings is available in book format.
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Contents
Reviewed Papers
Generating Plans To Succeed in Uncertain Environments
Sugato Bagchi,
Gautam Biswas, and Kazuhiko Kawamura / 1
Improving Robot Plans During Their Execution
Michael Beetz and Drew
McDermott / 7
Managing Dynamic Temporal Constraint Networks
Roberto Cervoni, Amedeo
Cesta, and Angelo Oddi / 13
Constructing Simplified Plans Via Truth Criteria Approximation
Steve A.
Chien and Gerald F. DeJong / 19
Solving Time-critical Decision-making Problems with Predictable Computational Demands
Thomas Dean and Lloyd Greenwald / 25
Probabilistic Planning with Information Gathering and Contingent
Execution
Denise Draper, Steve Hanks, and Daniel Weld / 31
Plan Execution Motivation in Multi-agent Systems
Eithan Ephrati, Motty
Perry, and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein / 37
Arguing about Plans: Plan Representation and Reasoning for Mixed-initiative
Planning
George Ferguson and James F. Allen / 43
Task Networks for Controlling Continuous Processes
R. James Firby /
49
The Intentional Planning System: ItPlanS
Christopher W. Geib / 55
Representation and Control in IxTeT, a Temporal Planner
Malik Ghallab and
Hervé Laruelle / 61
Approximate Planning. (Extended Abstract)
Matthew L. Ginsberg / 68
Planning with Failure
Fausto Giunchiglia, Luca Spalazzi, and Paolo
Traverso / 74
Conditional Linear Planning
Robert P. Goldman and Mark S. Boddy /
80
Reasoning About When to Start Acting
Richard Goodwin / 86
Design Tradeoffs in Partial Order (Plan space) Planning
Subbarao
Kambhampati / 92
Generating Parallel Execution Plans with a Partial-order Planner
Craig A.
Knoblock / 98
Avoiding Pitfalls in Case-based Planning
Jana Koehler / 104
Action-based Planning
Amy L. Lansky / 110
Testing Incremental Adaptation
D. M. Lyons and A. J. Hendriks / 116
Real-time Planning by Interleaving Real-time Search with
Subgoaling
Shigeo Matsubara and Toru Ishida / 122
Embedded Planning
Philippe Morignot / 128
Toward a Plan Steering Agent: Experiments with Schedule Maintenance
Tim
Oates and Paul R. Cohen / 134
Incremental Search Algorithms for Real-time Decision Making
Joseph C.
Pemberton and Richard E. Korf / 140
Synthesizing Protection Monitors from Causal Structure
Glen A. Reece and
Austin Tate / 146
Becoming Increasingly Reliable
Reid Simmons / 152
The Use of Supervenience in Dynamic-world Planning
Lee Spector and James
Hendler / 158
The Need for Different Domain-independent Heuristics
Peter Stone, Manuela
Veloso, and Jim Blythe / 164
Linkability: Examining Causal Link Commitments in Partial-order
Planning
Manuela Veloso and Jim Blythe / 170
Optimal Planning with a Goal-directed Utility Model
Mike Williamson and
Steve Hanks / 176
Delaying Variable Binding Commitments in Planning
Qiang Yang and Alex Y.
M. Chan / 182
Decomposition and Causality in Partial-order Planning
R. Michael Young,
Martha E. Pollack, and Johanna D. Moore / 188
Posters
Planning-based Integrated Decision Support Systems
Marie A. Bienkowski
and Marie E. des Jardins / 196
Decision-theoretic Control of Failure Recovery
Lisa J. Burnell / 202
The Design of ALPS: An Adaptive Learning and Planning System
Randall J.
Calistri-Yeh and Alberto M. Segre / 207
Producing Satisficing Solutions to Scheduling Problems: An Interactive
Constraint Relaxation Approach
Steve A. Chien and Jonathan M. Gratch
/ 213
Using AI Planning Techniques to Automatically Generate Image Processing
Procedures
Steve A. Chien / 219
Reconfiguration of Multi-agent Planning Systems
Diane J. Cook / 225
Branching Continuous Time and the Semantics of Continuous Action
Ernest
Davis / 231
Automatic Derivation of World Update Schemes
Joseph Downs, Han Reichgelt,
and Nigel Shadbolt / 237
The Use of Optimistic and Pessimistic Resource Profiles to Inform Search in an
Activity Based Planner
Brian Drabble and Austin Tate / 243
UMCP: A Sound and Complete Procedure for Hierarchical Task-network
Planning
Kutluhan Erol, James Hendler, and Dana Nau / 249
Adapting Routines to Improve Task Coordination
Michael Freed and Gregg
Collins / 255
Robot Motion Planning Integrating Planning Strategies and Learning
Methods
Luca Maria Gambardella and Cristina Versino / 261
Decision-theoretic Refinement Planning Using Inheritance
Abstraction
Peter Haddawy and Meliani Suwandi / 266
Planning for Dynamic Configuration of Component-based Architectures
Gail
Haddock / 272
Planning, Behaviours, Decomposition, and Monitoring Using Graph Grammars and
Fuzzy Logic
Jörg-Michael Hasemann / 275
A Planner with Quality Goal and Its Speed-up Learning for Optimization
Problem
Masahiko Iwamoto / 281
Planning with Thematic Actions
Deepak Khemani / 287
How to Make Probabilistic Planners Risk-Sensitive. (Without Altering Anything.)
Sven Koenig and Reid G. Simmons / 293
Reactive and Automatic Behavior in Plan Execution
Pat Langley, Wayne Iba,
and Jeff Shrager / 299
Human Frontal Lobes and AI Planning Systems
Richard Levinson / 305
Quantitative Operator Selection for Planning Under Uncertainty
Todd
Michael Mansell / 311
Splitting Multiple Situations in Conditional Planning
Alfredo Milani/ 317
Control Knowledge to Improve Plan Quality
M. Alicia Perez and Jaime G.
Carbonell / 323
Opportunities: A Unifying Framework for Planning and Execution
Louise
Pryor and Gregg Collins / 329
Learning Planning Operators by Observation and Practice
Xuemei Wang /
335
Case Adaptation in a Case-based Process Planning System
Hao Yang and Wen
F. Lu / 341
A Framework for Automatic Problem Decomposition in Planning
Qiang Yang,
Shuo Bai, and Guiyou Qiu / 347
Index / 353