On planning while learning

  • Authors:
  • Shmuel Safra;Moshe Tennenholtz

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel;Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Haifa, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

This paper introduces a framework for Planning while Learning where an agent is given a goal to achieve in an environment whose behavior is only partially known to the agent. We discuss the tractability of various plan-design processes. We show that for a large natural class of Planning while Learning systems, a plan can be presented and verified in a reasonable time. However, coming up algorithmically with a plan, even for simple classes of systems is apparently intractable. We emphasize the role of off-line plan-design processes, and show that, in most natural cases, the verification (projection) part can be carried out in an efficient algorithmic manner.