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Extracting Effective and Admissible State Space Heuristics from the Planning Graph

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Extracting Effective and Admissible State Space Heuristics from the Planning Graph
Graphplan and heuristic state space planners such as HSP-R and UNPOP are currently two of the most effective approaches for solving classical planning problems. These approaches have hither-to been seen as largely orthogonal. In this paper, we show that the planning graph structure that Graphplan builds in polynomial time, provides a rich substrate for deriving more effective heuristics for state space planners. Specifically, we show that the heuristics used by planners such as HSP-R and UNPOP do badly in several domains due to their failure to consider the interactions between subgoals, and that the mutex information in the planning graph captures exactly this interaction information. We develop several families of heuristics, some aimed at search speed and others at optimality of solutions. Our empirical studies show that our heuristics significantly out-perform the existing state space heuristics.
XuanLong Nguyen, Subbarao Kambhampati
Added 01 Nov 2010
Updated 01 Nov 2010
Type Conference
Year 2000
Where AAAI
Authors XuanLong Nguyen, Subbarao Kambhampati
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