Re: Gentle introduction to "Planning"?

On Jan 31, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Graham Klyne wrote:

> This is something I've been meaning to ask for a while, but have only 
> just got around to...
>
> Can anyone indicate a gentle introduction to AI planning techniques, 
> sufficient to understanding roughly what is involved in applying them 
> to Semantic Web services?

Most AI textbooks have discussions. The one in Russell and Norvig seems 
ok enough. They also discuss the sitcalc.

Plug for UMDer: Dana Nau has a planning textbook forthcoming (in march).

See: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/

Some of his lectures might be useful:	
	http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/cmsc722/

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.

Received on Saturday, 31 January 2004 19:48:06 UTC