Background ยท Automated Planning

Automated Planning, at Scale

Automated planning finds an ordered sequence of actions that transforms an initial state into a goal state.

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Initial State + Goalspecified in PDDL
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Plannersearch + heuristic
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Planaction sequence

A vast ecosystem

Many domains, planners, search algorithms & heuristics โ€” each combination differs in quality, cost & optimality.

Rich empirical data

The International Planning Competition (IPC) yields performance results across many domains.

But unstructured

This metadata is rarely captured in a structured, reasoning-friendly form โ€” the gap we address.