New Heuristics for Planning with Action Costs

Classical planning is the problem of nding a sequence of actions that take an agent from an initial state to a desired goal situation, assuming deter- ministic outcomes for actions and perfect information. Satis cing planning seeks to quickly nd low-cost solutions with no guarantees of optimality. T...

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Autor: Keyder, Emil Ragip
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:CBUC, CESCA
Repositorio:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
OAI Identifier:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/7570
Acceso en línea:http://www.tdx.cat/TDX-0210111-150546
http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7570
Access Level:acceso abierto
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STRIPS
Steiner tree
soft goal compilation
set-additive heuristic
soft goal
search
satisficing planning
relaxed plan heuristic
relaxed plan
relaxation
recursive conditioning
planning domain
planning
landmark
optimal planning
oversubscription
independence
independence assumption
inference
landmark heuristic
hypergraph
heuristic
heuristic search
graph
dtree
delete relaxation
cost
constraint satisfaction
conjunctive landmark
classical planning
complexity
choice variable
Bayesian network
additive heuristic
algorithm
AND/OR graph
action cost
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Sumario:Classical planning is the problem of nding a sequence of actions that take an agent from an initial state to a desired goal situation, assuming deter- ministic outcomes for actions and perfect information. Satis cing planning seeks to quickly nd low-cost solutions with no guarantees of optimality. The most e ective approach for satis cing planning has proved to be heuristic search using non-admissible heuristics. In this thesis, we introduce several such heuristics that are able to take into account costs on actions, and there- fore try to minimize the more general metric of cost, rather than length, of plans, and investigate their properties and performance. In addition, we show how the problem of planning with soft goals can be compiled into a classical planning problem with costs, a setting in which cost-sensitive heuristics such as those presented here are essential.