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title: "Learning Planning Heuristics through Observation"
authors:
  - "Charles P. Dolan"
  - "Michael G. Dyer"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/115"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0115.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1985
pages: "600-601"
track: "Learning and Acquisition"
keywords:
---

# Learning Planning Heuristics through Observation

Charles P. Dolan, Michael G. Dyer

*Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 600-601.

## Abstract

This paper discusses a method for learning thematic level structures, i.e. abstract plan/goal combinations, by observing the bad planning behavior of narrative characters. The learning method discussed is a one-trial, schema acquis~ion method, which is similar to DeJong's [DeJong, 1983]. The method uses constraint-based causal reasoning to construct a new schema which characterizes a situation. This work is part of the MORRIS project at UCLA [Dyer, 1983b].