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We describe the generic planning architecture parcPLAN, which uses constraint-solving to perform both temporal and non-temporal reasoning. The architecture allows considerable temporal sophistication in the specification of actions, integrity constraints and planning problems, and produces plans with a high degree of concurrency in action execution. A feature of parcPLAN is the capability to represent and minimise costs associated with plans. parcPLAN has been implemented in the Constraint Logic Programming language ECLiPSe, and performs well on large-scale planning and resource allocation problems.
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Lever, J., Richards, B. (1994). parcPlan: a planning architecture with parallel actions, resources and constraints. In: Raś, Z.W., Zemankova, M. (eds) Methodologies for Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 869. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58495-1_22
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