Re: Gentle introduction to "Planning"?

In addition to the papers/books Bijan has recommended, I recommend
the following overview paper on AI planning.
It doesn't relate them to web service composition, but it is a
reasonable overview of the field.

Recent Advances in AI Planning
Dan Weld
AI Magazine, 1999

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/weld/

Sheila McIlraith



On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Bijan Parsia wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>

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