What is Planning?

Any technology that for a given goal state GF and given initial state G0, can construct a sequence of actions {A1,..,An}=A such that in some logic-based formalization, AG0GF where

A planner synthesizes, somehow, such a consistent sequence.
Enforcing such consistency is in general hard.
Constructive deductive synthesis AI planners do this by proving the sequence: the sequence need not be further verified.



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