APP: Agent Planning Package

Nowadays, a large number of planning systems exist. The majority of them are either applicable only to specific domains (domain dependent) or support only plan generation, but not plan execution and supervision. This paper presents Agent Planning Package (APP), a new domain independent planner which facilitates the creation of intelligent agents. Through the use of APP, agents can generate plans within their operating environment, as well as execute them and supervise the execution. Furthermore, APP supports online changes to the planning problem and domain, as well as creation of multiple plans and plans which contain alternative paths of execution.

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