Applying Design Space Analysis To Planning

This paper describes a design space analysis approach towards a complete planning solution A complete solution is de ned as one containing the resultant plan the context in which it applies and the argument structure that justi es it The focus in this paper is on de ning and communicating the argument struc ture component A perspective of a plan as a spe cialised type of design and planning as a specialised form of design activity is used In doing so research is drawn upon from the design rationale community for generating an explanation of a designed artifact In particular the method of generating a design space which represents the location of the plan within the space of possible plan elaborations is adopted An ini tial implementation Nonlin DR is described and its potential bene ts to stand alone and mixed initiative planning is discussed