Analyzing Flexible Timeline-based Plans

  • Authors:
  • Amedeo Cesta;Alberto Finzi;Simone Fratini;Andrea Orlandini;Enrico Tronci

  • Affiliations:
  • ISTC-CNR, Italy, email: amedeo.cesta@istc.cnr.it;DSF “Federico II” University, Italy, email: alberto.finzi@dsf.unina.it;ISTC-CNR, Italy, email: simone.fratini@istc.cnr.it;ISTC-CNR, Italy, email: andrea.orlandini@istc.cnr.it;DI “La Sapienza” University, Italy, email: enrico.tronci@di.uniroma1.it

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 conference on ECAI 2010: 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Timeline-based planners have been shown quite successful in addressing real world problems. Nevertheless they are considered as a niche technology in AI P&S research as an application synthesis with such techniques is still considered a sort of “black art”. Authors are currently developing a knowledge engineering tool around a timeline-based problem solving environment; in this framework we aim at integrating verification and validation methods. This work presents a verification process suitable for a timeline-based planner. It shows how a problem of flexible temporal plan verification can be cast as model-checking on timed game automata. Additionally it provides formal properties and checks the effectiveness of the proposed approach with a detailed experimental analysis.