CS479/CS579 : Planning 
(Tentative Schedule)
(Time: T TH  11:45am - 1:00pm) 
Week Date Topic Reading/Notes Assignment
1 15-Jan-04 Introduction Chapter 11, Russel and Norvig (New edition)  
2 20-Jan-04 Background Review Propositional Logic  
  22-Jan-04 (Logic, Search, CSP, etc.) First oder logic (long note)  
3 27-Jan-04 Planning as search Search Download/Install
  29-Jan-04   Graph Plan and HSP GraphPlan System
4 3-Feb-04   Section 11.4 from Chapter 11 HSP
  5-Feb-04 First written homework and programming assignment (Click here for more detail)   11.4 (due 2/9/04)
5 10-Feb-04 Partial order planning Section 11.3 from Chapter 11  
  12-Feb-04   Least Commitment Planning  
    Suggested additional reading Refinement Planning  
6 17-Feb-04 Planning as satisfiability Section 11.5 from Chapter 11  
  19-Feb-04   Planning as satisfiability  
    Second homework    (due 3/1/04)
7 24-Feb-04 Planning as model checking Paper on Planning as model checking  
  26-Feb-04   A tutorial on planning as model checking  
8 2-Mar-04   A paper on model checking  
  4-Mar-04      
    Third homework   (due 3/8/04)
9 7-Mar-04 HTN Planning Section 2, Chapter 12 of Russell and Norvig's Book  
  11-Mar-04   A procedure for HTN-Planning  
10 16-Mar-04 Review SHOP - A HTN-based planner  
  18-Mar-04 Test    
11 23-Mar-04 Spring break     
  25-Mar-04      
12 30-Mar-04 Test Discussion    Project Topic
  1-Apr-04     Start Project
13 6-Apr-04 Guest speaker   project 
  8-Apr-04     project 
14 13-Apr-04 Planning using temporal logic Bacchus and Kabanza project 
  15-Apr-04     project 
15 20-Apr-04 Planning using temporal logic Continue with TLPlan of Bacchus and Kabanza project 
  22-Apr-04     project 
16 27-Apr-04 Planning with uncertainty Blythe project 
  29-Apr-04   Kaelbling et al. project 
17 4-May-04 Conformant/Conditional Planning   project 
  6-May-04     Complete Project
18 11-May-04 Exam week    
  13-May-04      
Last modified: Wed Nov 05 18:25:48 Mountain Standard Time 2003