Blackbox

To try out Blackbox, follow these instructions:

Download blackbox.tar.Z and uncompress it.
- You can uncompress it by doing:
```
% uncompress blackbox.tar.Z
```
  which will leave blackbox.tar.
- Then you can "untar" it by doing:
```
% tar xvf blackbox.tar
```
  This will create an blackbox directory and associated subdirectories.
Notice that blackbox is distributed as an executable, along with directory called "Examples".
Just like Graphplan, Blackbox takes the input of an operators file and a facts file. There are also many other options. To find out about all of them, type:
```
% cd blackbox
% ./blackbox -help
```

Next, try out blackbox on the logistics domain.

% cd Examples/logistics-strips
% ../../blackbox -o domain.pddl -f prob004-log-a.pddl

This should take about 4 minutes, but - on Aludra - it might take as long as 5-10 minutes. But, it's a good example to use since you can watch it deliberate and consider various goal steps.
Please contact Greg Barish (barish@isi.edu) if you need the source files to Blackbox.
For more information, see the Blackbox home page .