Coordination for Agents with Freedom of Choice

Autonomous, self-interested agents have to construct plans for their activities. Together, these plans form a joint plan in the multi-agent system the agents are part of. Merging the plans of these agents is not guaranteed to be successful as their plans might conflict. Hence, we require some form of coordination that enables agents to plan for...

Integrating landmarks in partial order planners

In this document we will continue a line of research which focusses on reviving partial order planning. We will look at the latest pair of partial order planners, RePOP and VHPOP which both use techniques developed for state-space planners in an attempt to make partial order planning competitive with state of the art state-space planners. We...