Automated Conversion and Simplification of Plan Representations

Martin Allen and Shlomo Zilberstein. Automated Conversion and Simplification of Plan Representations. Proceedings of the ICAPS Workshop on Connecting Planning Theory with Practice, Whistler, British Columbia, 2004.

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.

Bibtex entry:

@inproceedings{AZicaps04ws,
  author	= {Martin Allen and Shlomo Zilberstein},
  title		= {Automated Conversion and Simplification of Plan Representations},
  booktitle     = {Proceedings of the {ICAPS} Workshop on Connecting Planning Theory
                   with Practice},
  year		= {2004},
  pages		= {},
  address       = {Whistler, British Columbia},
  url		= {http://rbr.cs.umass.edu/shlomo/papers/AZicaps04ws.html}
}

shlomo@cs.umass.edu