This paper explores issues encountered when performing online management of large collections of macro-actions generated for use in planning. Existing approaches to managing collections of macro-actions are designed for use with offline macro-action learning, pruning candidate macro-actions on the basis of their effect on the performance of the planner on small training problems. In this paper ...

Water-soluble macromolecular chain transfer agents (Macro-CTAs) were developed for the microwave-assisted precipitation polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide. Two types of Macro-CTAs, amphiphilic (Macro-CTA1) and hydrophilic (Macro-CTA2), were investigated regarding their activity for the facile formation of nanoparticles and double hydrophilic block copolymers by RAFT processes. While both M...