Re: Powerloom, a first stab...

On Mar 26, 2010, at 1:51 AM, Gerard Toonstra wrote:

> Before looking at powerloom, I looked at JSHOP2. JSHOP2 can solve  
> planning problems, but it requires compilation
> of the KB and the language is certainly not as rich as powerloom's  
> for the expression of particular relations and so forth.
> Is powerloom well suited for planning problems in general? I haven't  
> found any demos or tutorials that
> show how it's used for those kinds of problems.

I think that you could use PowerLoom as the knowledge and state  
repository for a planning system.  We don't have any actual planning  
reasoners that work with the PowerLoom representation, although that  
is a nice idea to explore.  By and large, planning systems don't  
normally use a very rich representation language, often just having a  
propositional logic formalism.  So I think you could get some nice  
results from using a powerful representation language with its own  
inference capabilities along with a planning system.

-Tom.

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