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Endorsements
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Automated Planning is a tremendous book! It provides an extremely comprehensive,
systematic, and clear coverage of this important and exciting field of
AI. Readers will not only gain a deep understanding of the theoretical
foundations of planning; they will actually learn how this future-oriented
technology is to be applied in a variety of areas. Automated Planning
is just the standard AI planning textbook we have been waiting for. |
- Professor Susanne Biundo, Director of PLANET, the European Network
of Excellence in AI Planning
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This book is an excellent resource for both students and teachers,
and a valuable reference guide for seasoned planning researchers. It
covers a surprising level of technical details for its size, yet is quite
accessible to t the mathematically astute reader. I would like to thank
the authors for making this body of knowledge accessible to a wider audience. |
- Kutluhan Erol, Mindlore, Inc.
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Planning research, which has been a key area in AI since the General
Problem Solver of Newell and Simon in 50's, has undergone significant
progress in the last few years. In this book, Malik Ghallab, Dana Nau,
and Paolo Traverso, three leading AI planning researchers, provide the
first balanced and comprehensive introduction to this exciting and fast
moving field. |
- Hector Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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AI planning experts, teachers, and students have been waiting for
ages for the first textbook about the field---the comprehensive, up-to-date
synthesis. Here it is! An admirable piece of work that will undoubtedly
become a standard reference. |
- Joachim Hertzberg, Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent
Systems
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A much needed and timely compendium that conveys both the diverse
history and the current excitement of the research in Automated Planning. |
- Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University
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The publication of this book creates an opportunity for planning to
reach a much wider community than specialized researchers, to capture
the imaginations of a new generation of AI students, both graduates and
undergraduates, showing that while planning is rooted in strong theoretical
foundations, its applications can reach from intelligent game play to
evacuation operations and even to the stars! I am certain that it will
find a place on the bookshelves of every serious planning researcher,
but its true place is in the minds of our undergraduate and graduate
students whom it should inspire to add to the impressive body of work
it describes. |
- Derek Long, University of Strathclyde
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In recent years, comprehensive texts have been written for several
of the other major areas of Artificial Intelligence, including machine
learning, natural-language processing, and constraint-satisfaction processing,
but until now, the field of planning has been devoid of such a resource,
despite the considerable number of advances in and the significant maturation
of planning research in the past decade. With Automated Planning: Theory
and Practice, Malik Ghallab, Dana Nau, and Paolo Traverso have filled
that void, and have done so with a remarkably clear and well-written
book. |
- Martha Pollack, University of Michigan
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The authors cover a vast range of topics in planning research. The
reader will find methodical formalisms of theoretical concepts with illustrative
examples, as well as practical case studies. Well-developed exercises
provide practice for students of planning. This is a great book. |
- Stephen Smith, Great Game Products
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The engineer who needs to know how to use AI planning is on his own,
in the tangled forest of undigested reports of original research.Until
now, that is. For the first time there is a text that is comprehensive,
structured and up to date. Automated Planning provides both the graduate
student of AI and the engineer faced with designing an autonomous system
with the reference they really need. |
- Sam Steele, University of Essex
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Planning is one of the most important aspects of intelligent behavior.
AI techniques to automate it are a significant challenge. This textbook
guides you through the advances made in 40 years of pioneering R&D. It
provides a uniform theoretical framework as a basis for showing how practical
planners are developed. Based on the authors' wide experience in teaching
and tutorials, the book provides a range of learning paths adaptable
to the reader's needs. |
- Austin Tate, AIAI, University of Edinburgh
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By synthesizing a broad range of planning approaches into a common
conceptual framework and explaining them with a common set of problems,
this book provides unique clarity in understanding these approaches and
their interrelationships. |
- David Wilkins, SRI International
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