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title: "Hierarchical Planning in a Distributed Environment"
authors:
  - "Daniel D. Corkill"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/41"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0041.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
pages: ""
track: ""
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# Hierarchical Planning in a Distributed Environment

Daniel D. Corkill

*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

many applica tions which are naturally suited to the use ofPlanning sa cruc a . aspec o distributed problem solving systems, motivating generalization of centralized planning techniques to accomodate multiple and distributed centers of planning control. such a generalization of Sacerdoti's NOAH (Nets of Action Hierarchies) planning system is described . This generalization involves distribution of NOAH's criticism and world model mechanisms.