No Planner Is an Island: Lessons from the Nextcut Process Planner

Integrated Planning Applications

Volume

Papers from the 1995 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

My experience with "practical planning problems" is mainly through the process planning domain. I will describe some of the aspects of this domain that set it apart from the simulated toy-domains, and address their implications for the "typical" AI planning algorithms. The work itself is described in the references [8, 6, 7, 4, 5]. The paper is organized into three parts. In the first part, I describe the process planning domain in general terms and explain its interesting characteristics from AI planning view point. In the second part, I provide a brief overview of the NExT-COT process planning system. In the third part, I attempt to answer the questions raised in the symposium CFP in teams of our process planning work. It is possible to read Parts I and HI to get a high level picture, and then get details from Part H. "