Modal tableaux for reasoning about actions and plans

Castilho, Marcos and Gasquet, Olivier and Herzig, Andreas


Abstract:

In this paper we investigate tableau proof procedures for reasoning about actions and plans. Our framework is a multimodal language close to that of propositional dynamic logic, wherein we solve the frame problem by introducing the notion of a dependence relation. Dependence is a weak causal connection between actions and atoms. Our tableaux are sound and complete for an important fragment of our language, within which all standard problems of reasoning about actions can be expressed, in particular planning tasks. Moreover, our tableaux are analytic and provide thus a decision procedure.


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@InProceedings{CaGaHe-ECP97,
  author 	= "Castilho, Marcos A. and Gasquet, Olivier and Herzig, Andreas",
  title 	= "Modal tableaux for reasoning about actions and plans",
  booktitle 	= "European Conference on Planning (ECP'97)",
  editor	= "Steel, Sam and Alami, Rachid ",
  series	= "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence",
  publisher 	= "Springer Verlag",
  number 	= "1348",
  pages		= "104--116",
  address 	= "Toulouse, France", 
  year 		= "1997"
}

							

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