Evaluating planners, plans, and planning agents

  • Authors:
  • Martha E. Pollack

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGART Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

The field of AI planning has become increasingly concerned with questions of evaluation. The papers in this special issue represent several different approaches to evaluation. The first two papers present detailed analytic and experimental comparisons of particular plan generation algorithms ("planners", for short). The third and fourth papers develop formalisms for categorizing planners and the plans they produce; these formalisms are intended to provide a vocabulary for further comparative work that can bridge the gap between formal planning research and planning applications. Finally, the fifth paper argues that planners and plans can only be evaluated in the context of the planning agents that execute the plans, and presents a decision-theoretic approach to evaluating planning agents.