The central fact is that we are planning agents. (M. Bratman, Intentions, Plans, and Practical Reasoning, 1987, p. 2) Recent arguments to the contrary notwithstanding, it seems to be the case that people-the best exemplars of general intelligence that we have to date do a lot of planning. It is therefore not surprising that modeling the planning process has always been a central part of the Artificial Intelligence enterprise. Reasonable behavior in complex environments requires the ability to consider what actions one should take, in order to achieve (some of) what one wants and that, in a nutshell, is what AI planning systems attempt to do. Indeed, the basic description of a plan generation algorithm has remained constant for nearly three decades: given a desciption of an initial state I, a goal state G, and a set of action types, find a sequence S of instantiated actions such that when S is executed instate I, G is guaranteed as a result. Working out the details of this class of algorithms, and making the elabora tions necessary for them to be effective in real environments, have proven to be bigger tasks than one might have imagined.
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Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. Kg
ISBN-13
9783642644771
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117509666
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Data Analysis
Author
Qiang Yang
Publication Name
Intelligent Planning: a Decomposition and Abstraction Based Approach
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Computer Science, Mathematics, Management
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
252 Pages
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235mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
429g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Qiang Yang
Series Title
Artificial Intelligence
Country/Region of Manufacture
Germany
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