Using available memory to transform Graphplan's search

  • Authors:
  • Terry Zimmerman;Subbarao Kambhampati

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We present a major variant of the Graphplan algorithm that employs available memory to transform the depth-first nature of Graphplan's search into an iterative state space view in which heuristics can be used to traverse the search space. When the planner, PEGG, is set to conduct exhaustive search, it produces guaranteed optimal parallel plans 2 to 90 times faster than a version of Graphplan enhanced with CSP speedup methods. By heuristically pruning this search space PEGG produces plans comparable to Graphplan's in makespan, at speeds approaching state-of-the-art heuristic serial planners.