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When searching lists, the current situation is represented by a state table, and changes in the situation are brought about by operators. An automated technique for selection of the right sequence of operators is described, based on a knowledge of the last operator or two, and deriving only a limited selection of subsequent operators, without prior knowledge of the current state. A table is output with, for each feasible sequence of one or two operators, a list of operators that might be tried next. Application of the technique to a robot moving blocks is described, and a LISP implementation is provided.
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The work described in this paper was performed under Grant No. 70NANB4H0006 from the National Bureau of Standards to the Catholic University of America.
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Kramer, T. Automated analysis of operators on state tables: A technique for intelligent search. J Autom Reasoning 2, 127–153 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02432148
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02432148