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From: walsh@loria.fr (Toby Walsh)
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Subject: Re: Plan Abstraction
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> I am looking for references to material on plan abstraction.

I would suggest the following (in alphabetical order):

@article{gwjai,
     key="Giunchiglia and Walsh",
     author="F. Giunchiglia and T. Walsh",
     title="A {Theory} of {Abstraction}",
     year = 1992,
     journal = AI,
     volume = 56,
     number = "2--3",
     pages = "323--390",
note =  "Also available as DAI Research Paper No 516,
Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh",
     }

@techreport{hendler1,
key="Hendler and Subrahmanian",
author="J. Hendler and V.S. Subrahmanian",
title="A Formal Model of Abstraction for Planning",
type="Technical Report",
institution= "Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland",
number="CS-TR-2480",
year="1990"}

@phdthesis{knoblock5,
author = "C. Knoblock",
key = "Knoblock",
title = "Automatically Generating Abstractions for Problem Solving",
school = "School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University",
year = "1991",
note = "Available as CMU-CS-91-120"}

@article{sacerdoti2,
key = "Sacerdoti",
author = "E.D. Sacerdoti",
title = "Planning in a hierarchy of abstraction  spaces",
journal = "Artificial Intelligence",
volume = 5,
year = 1974,
pages = "115-135"}

@phdthesis{tenenberg2,
key = "Tenenberg",
title = "Abstraction in {Planning}",
author = "J.D. Tenenberg",
year = "1988",
school = "Computer Science Department, University of Rochster",
note = "Also TR 250"}

@inproceedings{unruh1,
author = "A. Unruh and P. Rosenbloom",
title = "Abstraction in Problem Solving and Learning",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th IJCAI",
organization = IJCAI,
year = "1989"}


Toby Walsh
INRIA-Lorraine
Nancy, France


