PANDORA: a program for doing commonsense planning in complex situations

Abstract

A planning program named PANDORA (Plan ANalyzer with Dynamic Organization, Revision, and Application) has been developed which creates plans in the common-sense domains of everyday situations and of a Unix** Consultant using hierarchical planning and metaplanning. PANDORA detects its own goals in an event-driven fashion, dynamically interleaving the creation, execution and revision of its plans.