The Use of Supervenience in Dynamic-world Planning

Thispaperdescribesthe use of superveniencein integrating planningand reaction in complex,dynamicenvironments. ienceis a formof abstractionwithaffinities both action in AIplanningsystemsandto partitioning schemesin hierarchical control systems.Theuse of supervenieneecanbedistilled to an easy-to-stateconstraintonthe designof multileveldynamic-worldp "lanningsystems:worldknowledgeup, goals down.Wepresent the supervenience architecturewhichembodiesthis constraint, andcontrastit to thc subsumptionarchitecture of Brooks.Wedescribethe performanceof an implementationof the supervcnience architecture on a problemin the HomeBotdomain,and we concludewitha discussionof the role that supcrveniencecan playin future dynamic-worldplanningsystems.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: AIPS
• Authors: Lee Spector, James A. Hendler
• Keywords: AIplanningsystemsandto Partitioning Schemesin, AIPS 1994, Artificial Intelligence, Supervenience Architecturewhichembodiesthis Constraint, Superveniencein Integrating Planningand