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On-the-Fly Macros

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We present a domain-independent algorithm for planning that computes macros in a novel way. Our algorithm computes macros “on-the-fly” for a given set of states and does not require previously learned or inferred information, nor prior domain knowledge. The algorithm is used to define new domain-independent tractable classes of classical planning that are proved to include Blocksworld-arm and Towers of Hanoi.

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Chen, H., Giménez, O. (2009). On-the-Fly Macros. In: Ono, H., Kanazawa, M., de Queiroz, R. (eds) Logic, Language, Information and Computation. WoLLIC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5514. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02261-6_13

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