The Acquisition of Human Planning Expertise

Abstract

This chapter describes DÆDALUS, a planning system designed with human behavior in mind. Unlike most recent work on learning and planning, DÆDALUS employs a combination of forward chaining and means ends search, represents knowledge in a probabilistic framework, stores both cases and abstractions, and learns through an incremental process of concept formation. DÆDALUS represents each operator in a similar manner, specifying its preconditions as a set of state descriptors and its effects as a set of differences. Like most planning systems, DÆDALUS must solve problems that involve transforming an initial state into a desired state through the application of operators. The system describes each state as a set of literals—predicates with arguments—and it describes each problem or subproblem as an initial state conjoined with a set of differences that must be eliminated. DÆDALUS represents each operator in a similar manner, specifying its preconditions as a set of state descriptors and its effects as a set of differences. The system operates within a problem-space framework, but when domain-specific knowledge is available, it uses this information to constrain search.

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Text

Langley and Allen. "The Acquisition of Human Planning Expertise." International Conference on Machine Learning, 1991. doi:10.1016/B978-1-55860-200-7.50020-9

Markdown

[Langley and Allen. "The Acquisition of Human Planning Expertise." International Conference on Machine Learning, 1991.](https://mlanthology.org/icml/1991/langley1991icml-acquisition/) doi:10.1016/B978-1-55860-200-7.50020-9

BibTeX

@inproceedings{langley1991icml-acquisition,
  title     = {{The Acquisition of Human Planning Expertise}},
  author    = {Langley, Pat and Allen, John A.},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
  year      = {1991},
  pages     = {80-84},
  doi       = {10.1016/B978-1-55860-200-7.50020-9},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/icml/1991/langley1991icml-acquisition/}
}