Why now?
Significant scale-up in plan synthesis in last 4-5 years
- 5/6 action plans in minutes to 100 action plans in minutes
- Breakthroughs in search space representation, heuristic and domain-specific
Significant strides in our understanding of connections between planning and scheduling
- Rich connections between planning and CSP/SAT/ILP
- Vanishing separation between planning techniques and scheduling techniques