Statement of Research Interests
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Over the past few years 1, I have been studying the representation of time, as it appears in knowledge-based and classical planning. My goals have been to understand (i) the way future actions can be planned both with and without domain knowledge and (ii) how artificial agents and human beings can organize the future and react to the present. My previous work has focused on using engineering knowledge in architectural and managerial domains to generate the construction plans for a new office building [1] [2]. An alternative approach to domain independent planning has been used, consisting of deriving existence of tasks, their characteristics and links from a knowledge base, instead of reasoning on the goals and effects of each task. Given a description of the future building and of each of its floors, the system uses its knowledge of the building techniques about foundations, levels and roofs to incrementally generate a PERT chart of tasks. The resulting knowledge-based planner has generated a whole plan of approximately 1000 tasks in 1.5 minutes for prospective buildings; the correctness of such plans have been confirmed by human experts. That planner was integrated in a larger system, called COPLANER; the overall system acquires the initial building description, retrieves the details of each task from a relational database and, moreover, interacts with the final user. In classical planning, extending conflict resolution remains difficult because of (i) lack of precision about the definition of basic concepts (e.g. conflicts) and (ii) practical difficulty in choosing the next improvement of the current plan. In more recent work [3], I have implemented a domain independent planner, YAPS. In this work, the heuristic control is clearly isolated from the underlying formalism of action. This planner is based on the a priori definition of a criterion (separately introduced by D. Chapman and E. Pednanlt) which defines the truth of each term of a node in a non-linear zero/first order graph of actions. The criterion also identifies all applicable amendments improving the curreut
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