PhD Qualifying Examination


"Control Strategies for Deterministic State-based Planning"


By Mr. Wai-Kay Lau


Abstract:

Planning is the process to construct a sequence of actions in order to
achieve a state satisfying a certain goal from an initial state. It is a
computational hard problem for computers, but it still attracts many
researchers in the AI community as the problem is quite challenging and
there are quite many prospective applications of planning systems, like
production system scheduling, logistics, etc.

Although there are some good results from the research of domain-dependent
planning, researchers are not satisfied in the performance of this and
thus try to look at different alternatives. This includes the supplying of
domain-specific control knowledge to planning systems, analyzing of
planning problems to discover implicit control knowledge in the problems
and deriving of domain-specific control knowledge from the solutions of
small and simple problems in a domain. We will have a look at the
approaches by different researchers in these directions in this survey.


Date:     		Wednesday, 18 December 2002

Time:                   10:30a.m.-12:30p.m.

Venue:                  Room 1403
			lifts 25-26

Committee Members:      	Dr. Fangzhen Lin (Supervisor)
                        Dr. Dit-Yan Yeung (Chairman)
			Dr. Qiang Yang
			Dr. Nevin Zhang


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