University of Birmingham
School of Computer Science
Planning and Planning Extended 2011
The slides for last year are currently available here. I'll update them with changes made this year over time.
Topics and Slides
| Lecture | Topic | Slides | Exercises | |
| Week 1 | Introduction to planning | slides. | ||
| Week 2 | Situation calculus, frame problem, STRIPS | slides. | exercise sheet 1 | Solutions |
| Week 3 | STRIPS, Sussman Anomaly | exercise sheet 2 | Solutions | |
| Week 4 | Plan space planning | slides. The plan-space example step by step. | exercise sheet 3 | Solutions |
| Weeks 5-6 | SATPlan, GraphPlan and FF | slides. | exercise sheet 4 | Solutions |
| Weeks 7-8 | Hierarchical Planning | slides. | exercise sheet 5 | Solutions |
| Week 9 | Conditional Planning, Interval-based Planning | slides. | exercise sheet 6 | Solutions |
All students in Planning Extended will present a paper in the final few weeks of the semester. The papers can be chosen from the list below (which I will continue to expand), or you can suggest planning-related papers yourself, in which case you need approval from me first.
Papers to choose your presentation from.
Exercise Questions
Note that the answers are designed mostly as notes for me, rather than complete answers. Some of the questions may not have answers given (mostly because I've only drawn them by hand). Many questions don't have definitive answers, they're designed to generate discussion in class. The exercise sheets are in the table above.
Revision Slides
This years slides, with model solutions to last year's paper, are available.