AAAI Conference 1999 Conference Paper
State-Space Planning by Integer Optimization
- Henry Kautz
- T Shannon Labs; Joachim P. Walser
- AT
- T Shannon Labs
- i2 Technologies
This paper describes ILP-PLAN, a framework for solving AI planning problems represented as integer linear programs. ILP-PLAN extends the planning as satisfiability framework to handle plans with resources, action costs, and complex objective functions. We show that challenging planning problems can be effectively solved using both traditional branchand-bound IP solvers and efficient new integer local search algorithms. ILP-PLAN can find better quality solutions for a set of hard benchmark logistics planning problems than had been found by any earlier system.