Applying clustering techniques to reduce complexity in automated planning domains

  • Authors:

  • Luke Dicken;John Levine

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland;Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

  • Venue:
  • IDEAL'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent data engineering and automated learning
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Automated Planning is a very active area of research within Artificial Intelligence. Broadly this discipline deals with the methods by which an agent can independently determine the action sequence required to successfully achieve a set of objectives. In this paper, we will present initial work outlining a new approach to planning based on Clustering techniques, in order to group states of the world together and use the fundamental structure of the world to lift out more abstract representations. We will show that this approach can limit the combinatorial explosion of a typical planning problem in a way that is much more intuitive and reusable than has previously been possible, and outline ways that this approach can be developed further.