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ABTWEAK: Nonlinear planning with abstraction
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ABTWEAK is a complete hierarchical, non-linear planner that extends
David Chapman's (MIT 1986) TWEAK planner as described by
Yang (Waterloo) and Tenenberg (Rochester) in 1989. This implementation
includes a complete search strategy suited to abstraction hierarchies
known as LEFT-WEDGE (Woods 1991). This planner and related work
predates that of SNLP.
The planning language is the first order predicate logic
without quantifiers and logical connectives. Given an initial state
description and a goal state description, represented as sets of
literals, it finds a partially ordered, least-committed set of
operators to achieve the goal. It is correct in that every solution
plan found necessarily solves the goal from the initial state, and
complete in that it will terminate with a solution if one exists.
Also, source, all related papers, and manuals are available via WWW
at the home page of Steve Woods on URL
http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/students/sgwoods.html
or via the Logic Programming and Artificial Intelligence Group (LPAIG)
page on URL http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/.
Origin:
logos.uwaterloo.ca:/pub/abtweak/Abtweak.tar.Z
jupiter.drev.dnd.ca:/pub/steve/Abtweak
Version: v93 (19-APR-93)
Requires: Common Lisp
Ports: Tested in Allegro CL, KCL, Lucid CL
Copying: Please let the author know if you're using ABTWEAK, so
he can maintain a list of people who may be using it.
CD-ROM: Prime Time Freeware for AI, Issue 1-1
Author(s): Steven Woods, Qiang Yang, Josh Tenenberg
Contact: Qiang Yang
Computer Science Department
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1
Steven Woods
or
Keywords:
ABTWEAK, Authors!Tenenberg, Authors!Woods, Authors!Yang,
Lisp!Code, Planning, Univ. of Waterloo
References:
Steven Woods, Qiang Yang, and Josh Tenenberg, "Evaluating the Utility
of Goal Protection and Search Strategies in Abstract Planning",
unpublished, January, 1991.
Qiang Yang, Josh Tenenberg, Steven Woods, "Abstraction in Nonlinear
Planning", University of Waterloo Technical Report CS-92-32, 1992.
[An enhanced version of this paper is available by email from Steven Woods.]
Steven Woods, "An Implementation and Evaluation of a Hierarchical
Nonlinear Planner", Masters Thesis, University of Waterloo Technical
Report CS-91-17, April 1991.
Steven Woods, Overview of Chapman's work on TWEAK, November, 1989.
Yang and Tenenberg, "AbTweak: Abstracting a Nonlinear, Least
Commitment Planner", in Proceedings of AAAI-90, 1990.
David Chapman, "Planning for Conjunctive Goals", AI Journal
32:333-377, 1987.
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