Planning is hot...
Significant scale-up in the last 4-5 years
- Before we could synthesize about 5-6 action plans in minutes
- Now, we can synthesize 100-action plans in minutes
- Further scale-up with domain-specific control
Significant strides in our understanding
- Rich connections between planning and CSP(SAT) OR (ILP)
- Vanishing separation between planning & Scheduling
- New ideas for heuristic control of planners
- Wide array of approaches for customizing planners with domain-specific knowledge
26% of the papers in AAAI-99. 20% of papers in IJCAI-99.
New People. Conferences. Workshops. Competitions.
Inter-planetary explorations. Why the increased interest?