Recent Advances in AI Planning [electronic resource] : 5th European Conference on Planning, ECP'99 Durham, UK, September 8-10, 1999 Proceedings /

Planning as Model Checking -- Conformant Planning via Model Checking -- Strong Cyclic Planning Revisited -- Scaleability in Planning -- Exploiting Competitive Planner Performance -- A Parallel Algorithm for POMDP Solution -- Plan Merging & Plan Reuse as Satisfiability -- SAT-Based Procedures for Temporal Reasoning -- Numeric State Variables in Constraint-Based Planning -- Hierarchical Task Network Planning as Satisfiability -- Exhibiting Knowledge in Planning Problems to Minimize State Encoding Length -- Action Constraints for Planning -- Least Commitment on Variable Binding in Presence of Incomplete Knowledge -- Scaling up Planning by Teasing Out Resource Scheduling -- Real-Time Scheduling for Multi-agent Call Center Automation -- Task Decomposition Support to Reactive Scheduling -- Greedy Algorithms for the Multi-capacitated Metric Scheduling Problem -- Automata-Theoretic Approach to Planning for Temporally Extended Goals -- Integer Programs and Valid Inequalities for Planning Problems -- Deductive Synthesis of Recursive Plans in Linear Logic -- Sensor Planning with Non-linear Utility Functions -- Propice-Plan: Toward a Unified Framework for Planning and Execution -- What is the Expressive Power of Disjunctive Preconditions? -- Some Results on the Complexity of Planning with Incomplete Information -- Probabilistic Planning in the Graphplan Framework -- Making Graphplan Goal-Directed -- GRT: A Domain Independent Heuristic for STRIPS Worlds Based on Greedy Regression Tables -- Planning as Heuristic Search: New Results.