"The 5 W's of planning". 
Richard Goodwin	   - Weh1327  - 2pm 09/14/94


In this talk, I will introduce the 5 W's of planning and describe how my
thesis work is addressing some of these.

                Questions I am addressing
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When: When to plan, when to execute, and when to plan and execute?

What: What should be planned and to what level of detail?

Why: Why plan?

                Questions For Distributed AI
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Where: Where is planning done?  Centrally or distributed?

Who: Who plans each part of a task if it is (partially) distributed?


                Questions For Classical Planning
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How:  How to create plans and how to do it efficiently.