---
title: "Failsafe - A Floor Planner that Uses EBG to Learn from Its Failures"
authors:
  - "Jack Mostow"
  - "Neeraj Bhatnagar"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/50"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0050.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1987
pages: "249-254"
track: "Knowledge Acquisition"
keywords:
---

# Failsafe - A Floor Planner that Uses EBG to Learn from Its Failures

Jack Mostow, Neeraj Bhatnagar

*Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 249-254.

## Abstract

Analysis of failed problem solving efforts enables people to guide subsequent problem solving to avoid similar failures. This kind of learning while doing is essential in complex domains. We define Explanationbased Learning from Failure (ELF), a technique for achieving such a capability, and describe its prototype implementation in Failsafe, a Prolog program that learns from failure while solving floor planning problems.