The Nonlinear Nature of Plans
Abstract
We usually think of plans as linear sequences of actions. This is because plans are usually executed one step at a time. But plans themselves are not constrained by physical limitations of linearity. This paper describes a new information structure, called the procedural net, that represents a plan as a partial ordering of actions with respect to time. By avoiding premature commitments to a particular order for achieving subgoals, a problem-solving system using this representation can deal easily and directly with problems that are otherwise very difficult to solve.
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Sacerdoti. "The Nonlinear Nature of Plans." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1975.Markdown
[Sacerdoti. "The Nonlinear Nature of Plans." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1975.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1975/sacerdoti1975ijcai-nonlinear/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{sacerdoti1975ijcai-nonlinear,
title = {{The Nonlinear Nature of Plans}},
author = {Sacerdoti, Earl D.},
booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {1975},
pages = {206-214},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1975/sacerdoti1975ijcai-nonlinear/}
}