Automated conversion and simplification of plan representations
Martin Allen
Shlomo Zilberstein
Abstract
As planning agents grow more sophisticated, issues of plan representation
arise alongside concerns with plan generation.
Planning methods work over increasingly large and difficult problems
and resulting plans are often complex or unwieldy.
Further, where planners must interact with human beings---either
for purposes of plan verification and analysis, or in mixed-initiative
plan-generation settings---plans must be represented so
that the intended course of action is readily visible.
We propose automated techniques for the simplification of plans, and
for conversion between distinct plan representations;
our proposal is illustrated by examples from our recent research,
concerning conversion between large-scale MDP solutions and
graph-based contingency plans.
@InProceedings{Allen04a,
author = {Martin Allen and Shlomo Zilberstein},
title = {Automated Conversion and Simplification of Plan Representations},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Connecting Planning Theory with Practice,
Fourteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling ({ICAPS}-04)},
pages = {1--6},
year = 2004,
address = {Whistler, BC, Canada}
}