Automated Planning

Theory & Practice
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-4933-0370-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Automated planning technology now plays a significant role in a variety of demanding applications, ranging from controlling space vehicles and robots to playing the game of bridge. These real-world applications create new opportunities for synergy between theory and practice: observing what works well in practice leads to better theories of planning, and better theories lead to better performance of practical applications.

Automated Planning mirrors this dialogue by offering a comprehensive, up-to-date resource on both the theory and practice of automated planning. The book goes well beyond classical planning, to include temporal planning, resource scheduling, planning under uncertainty, and modern techniques for plan generation, such as task decomposition, propositional satisfiability, constraint satisfaction, and model checking.

The authors combine over 30 years experience in planning research and development to offer an invaluable text to researchers, professionals, and graduate students.

*Comprehensively explains paradigms for automated planning.
*Provides a thorough understanding of theory and planning practice, and how they relate to each other.
*Presents case studies of applications in space, robotics, CAD/CAM, process control, emergency operations, and games.

*Provides a thorough understanding of AI planning theory and practice, and how they relate to each other.
*Covers all the contemporary topics of planning, as well as important practical applications of planning, such as model checking and game playing.
*Presents case studies and applications in planning engineering, space, robotics, CAD/CAM, process control, emergency operations, and games.
*Provides lecture notes, examples of programming assignments, pointers to downloadable planning systems and related information online.

Zielgruppe

Primary audience: Senior undergraduate and graduate students in AI, Robotics, and Operations Research (in CS, EE and CompEng departments, mainly)

Secondary audience: Researchers and practitioners in artificial intelligence, robotics, and operations research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ghallab, Malik

Traverso, Paolo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction and Overview
I Classical Planning
2 Representations for Classical Planning*3 Complexity of Classical Planning*4 State-Space Planning*5 Plan-Space Planning

II Neoclassical Planning
6 Planning-Graph Techniques*7 Propositional Satisfiability Techniques*8 Constraint Satisfaction Techniques
III Heuristics and Control Strategies
9 Heuristics in Planning*10 Control Rules in Planning*11 Hierarchical Task Network Planning*12 Control Strategies in Deductive Planning

IV Planning with Time and Resources
13 Time for Planning*14 Temporal Planning*15 Planning and Resource Scheduling
V Planning under Uncertainty
16 Planning based on Markov Decision Processes*17 Planning based on Model Checking*18 Uncertainty with Neo-Classical Techniques
VI Case Studies and Applications
19 Space Applications*20 Planning in Robotics*21 Planning for Manufacturability Analysis*22 Emergency Evacuation Planning *23 Planning in the Game of Bridge
VII Conclusion
24 Conclusion and Other Topics
VIII Appendices
A Search Procedures and Computational Complexity*B First Order Logic*C Model Checking

Über Autor(innen)

Ghallab, Malik
Malik Ghallab is Director of Research at the Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse. He was the director of the French national AI program, coordinated the five national research programs in information science, and served as the chair of ASTI, the French technical society in information sciences and technologies. Currently, he is also the director of the French national interdisciplinary program on robotics and artificial entities (Robea).

Traverso, Paolo
Paolo Traverso is the Head of Sistemi di Ragionamento Automatico at the Instituto Trentino di Cultura - Instituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, (ITC-IRST). He was the project leader of industrial and experimental projects such as the development of Rail Traffic Management Systems, the design of tools for Automatic Train Protection, the synthesis of industrial controllers, and the development of systems for planning and control in space environment.