Automated Planning: Theory and Practice

by Malik Ghallab, Dana Nau, Paolo Traverso

Automated planning technology now plays a significant role in a variety of demanding applications, ranging from controlling space vehicles and robots to playing the game of bridge. These real-world applications create new opportunities for synergy between theory and observing what works well in practice leads to better theories of planning, and better theories lead to better performance of practical applications. Automated Planning mirrors this dialogue by offering a comprehensive, up-to-date resource on both the theory and practice of automated planning. The book goes well beyond classical planning, to include temporal planning, resource scheduling, planning under uncertainty, and modern techniques for plan generation, such as task decomposition, propositional satisfiability, constraint satisfaction, and model checking. The authors combine over 30 years experience in planning research and development to offer an invaluable text to researchers, professionals, and graduate students.

Genres: Computer Science, Programming

672 pages, Hardcover

First published May 3, 2004

Reviews

[Erik · Rating 3 out of 5]

Did not read the stochastic part.

Very good explanation of various techniques used for scheduling and planning.