Finding plans and defining plan constraints simultaneously

Jim Blythe
KCAP 01 Workshop on Interactive Tools for Knowledge Capture

Abstract

When people create plans, the constraints and criteria on the plans often become explicit only while potential plans are being examined. Therefore a tool that acquires plan constraints might benefit from including a tool to allow users to navigate the space of candidate plans. Preliminary work indicates that both this and the converse are true: being able to modify plan constraints will also help users to find good plans. I integrate a plan viewing tool based on Design Galleries with Constable, a system for acquiring procedural plan constraints. Constable includes several different knowledge acquisition tools as components, and the way that these tools share information with each other about the overall acquisition task provides considerable help to the user. At the same time, the plan viewing tool is more useful when users can modify constraints as they explore the plans.

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Jim Blythe
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