When a plan involves hundreds or thousands of events over time it can be di cult or impossible to tell whether those events are unfolding \according to plan" and to assess th...
Manyreal-world planning problems require generating plans that maximizethe parallelism inherent in a problem. There are a numberof partial-order planners that generate such plans;...
Despite the long history of classical planning, there has been very little comparative analysis of the performance tradeoffs offered by the multitude of existing planning algorith...
Aimsof traditional planners had beenlimited to finding a sequenceof operators rather than finding an optimal or neax-optimalfinal state. Consequent]y, the performanceimprovementsy...
The Scenario-based Engineering Process (SEP)is a novel approachto developingcomplexsystems.SEPbuilds newapplication systemsthrougha selectionprocessthat groupsprimitive components...
A robot system operating in an environmentin which there is uncertainty and changeneeds to combinethe ability to react withthe ability to plan ahead. In a previous paper wepropose...