NEW REASONING FOR TIMELINE BASED PLANNING - An Introduction to J-TRE and its Features

Riccardo De Benedictis, Amedeo Cesta

2012

Abstract

Time and resource reasoning are crucial aspects for modern planners to succeed in several real world domains. A quite natural way to deal with such reasoning is to use timeline based representations that have been exploited in several application-oriented planners. The search aspects of those planners still remain a “black art” for few experts of such particular approach. This paper proposes a new model to conduct search with timelines. It starts from the observation that current timeline based planners spend most search time in doing blind constraint reasoning and explores a different hybrid model to represent and reason on timelines that may overcome such computational burden.

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De Benedictis R. and Cesta A. (2012). NEW REASONING FOR TIMELINE BASED PLANNING - An Introduction to J-TRE and its Features . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-95-9, pages 144-153. DOI: 10.5220/0003746901440153


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@conference{icaart12,
author={Riccardo De Benedictis and Amedeo Cesta},
title={NEW REASONING FOR TIMELINE BASED PLANNING - An Introduction to J-TRE and its Features},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2012},
pages={144-153},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003746901440153},
isbn={978-989-8425-95-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - NEW REASONING FOR TIMELINE BASED PLANNING - An Introduction to J-TRE and its Features
SN - 978-989-8425-95-9
AU - De Benedictis R.
AU - Cesta A.
PY - 2012
SP - 144
EP - 153
DO - 10.5220/0003746901440153