Evaluating alternative plans for guiding tourism on Nantucket Island

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 ...

Consider the situation where an intelligent agent accepts as input a complete plan, i.e., a sequence of states (or operators) that should be followed in order to achieve a goal. For some reason, the given plan cannot be implemented by the agent, ...

In recent years, process planners have become interested in the development of dynamic process planning systems that can interface to scheduling systems providing alternative process plans to increase flexibility in scheduling. However, deciding how ...