A modular action description language

  • Authors:
  • Vladimir Lifschitz;Wanwan Ren

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Texas at Austin;The University of Texas at Austin

  • Venue:
  • AAAI'06 Proceedings of the 21st national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

"Toy worlds" involving actions, such as the blocks world and the Missionaries and Cannibals puzzle, are often used by researchers in the areas of commonsense reasoning and planning to illustrate and test their ideas. We would like to create a datahase of general-purpose knowledge about actions that encodes common features of many action domains of this kind. in the same way as abstract algebra and topology represent common features of specific number systems. This paper is a report on the first stage of this project--the design of an action description language in which this database will be written The new language is an extension of the action language C+. Its main distinctive feature is the possibility of referring to other action descriptions in the definition of a new action domain.