A Planning-Based Approach for Generating Planning Problems

Most of the research in Automated Planning relies on the evaluation of different techniques over a set of benchmarks. The generation of planning tasks for these benchmarks is done using generators coded ad-hoc. Instead, we propose an approach for generating planning problems automatically given the domain definition and some declarative semanticsrelated information provided by the user. The approach consists of modelling the task of generating planning problems also as a planning problem. The main contribution of this work is that the generation of planning problems is partially handled in a domain-independent way, which leads to a saving of time and effort for researchers. Additionally, the declarative input to the generator facilitates the modification of its behavior. This is a feature of interest for generating different problem distributions.