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Multivalued action languages with constraints in CLP(FD)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2010

AGOSTINO DOVIER ,
ANDREA FORMISANO  and
ENRICO PONTELLI
AGOSTINO DOVIER
Affiliation:
Università di Udine, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Via delle Scienze 206, 33100 UDINE (Italy) (e-mail: dovier@dimi.uniud.it)
ANDREA FORMISANO
Affiliation:
Università di Perugia, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Via Vanvitelli 1, 06123 Perugia (Italy) (e-mail: formis@dmi.unipg.it)
ENRICO PONTELLI
Affiliation:
New Mexico State University, Department of Computer Science, P.O. Box 30001, MSC CS, Las Cruces, NM 88003 (USA) (e-mail: epontell@cs.nmsu.edu)
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Abstract

Action description languages, such as and ℬ (Gelfond and Lifschitz, Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 1998, vol. 2, pp. 193—210), are expressive instruments introduced for formalizing planning domains and planning problem instances. The paper starts by proposing a methodology to encode an action language (with conditional effects and static causal laws), a slight variation of ℬ, using Constraint Logic Programming over Finite Domains. The approach is then generalized to raise the use of constraints to the level of the action language itself. A prototype implementation has been developed, and the preliminary results are presented and discussed.

Keywords

action description languagesknowledge representationplanningconstraint logic programming
Type
Regular Papers
Information
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , March 2010 , pp. 167 - 235
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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