Domain-independent planning: representation and plan generation
Artificial Intelligence
Explainable (and maintainable) expert systems
IJCAI'85 Proceedings of the 9th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
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SIMS is an environment which greatly reduces the burden of planning and performing tasks involving multiple diverse software servers. The user interacts with SIMS in the language natural for the task domain, which is independent of available services. Two main functions of SIMS are task planning and execution. Planning is the main focus of the paper. Planning is supported by the knowledge about domain terminology, models of tasks and of the functionality of servers. Tasks and servers can be modeled in SIMS in different levels of detail. More detailed models enable more efficient search for services relevant for the task. Search is also limited by the hierarchical structure of knowledge.Besides helping users, SIMS gives a methodology for building more maintainable systems by providing the language for specifying server functionality and a principled method for modifying the system when services are modified.