Craig Boutilier and Ronen I. Brafman
Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, CANADA, V6T 1Z4
email: cebly,brafman@cs.ubc.ca
Abstract
In order to generate plans for agents with multiple actuators or agent
teams, we must be able to represent and plan using concurrent actions
with interacting effects. Historically, this has
been considered a challenging task
that could require a temporal planner.
%that is able to reason about resources.
We show that, with simple modifications, the STRIPS action
representation language can be used to represent concurrent
interacting actions.
Moreover, current algorithms for partial-order planning
require only small modifications in order
to handle this language and produce coordinated
multiagent plans. These results open the way
to partial order planners for cooperative multiagent systems.
To appear, AAAI-97, Providence, RI
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