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In this work we present PROMAL: Programming in Modal Action Logic, a formalism to deal with the planning problem. This formalism is based on the concepts of Modal Action Logic (MAL) and may be regarded as an extension of SLD-Resolution to allow the clauses of a Definite Set to have literals with modalities.
The modalities are intended to capture the notion of state change caused by the execution of actions. As in previous works in MAL, we call the information about a system's state scenario. Besides accomplishing proofs of properties of specific scenarios it is possible to search scenarios where desired properties hold.
An earlier version of this paper was published in the IX Brazilian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SBIA'92) — In Portuguese. This is an extension and formalisation of that work.
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Rodrigues, O., Benevides, M. (1995). PROMAL: Programming in modal action logic. In: Wainer, J., Carvalho, A. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. SBIA 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 991. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0034803
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