---
title: "Plan Debugging in an Intentional System"
authors:
  - "Gregg Collins"
  - "Lawrence Birnbaum"
  - "Bruce Krulwich"
  - "Michael Freed"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/53"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/0053.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1991
pages: "353-358"
track: "Cognitive Modeling"
keywords:
---

# Plan Debugging in an Intentional System

Gregg Collins, Lawrence Birnbaum, Bruce Krulwich, Michael Freed

*Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 353-358.

## Abstract

We have developed a model-based approach to learning from plan failures in which an agent uses a model of itself to determine where in its planning or execution the cause of a failure lies. We believe that such an approach constitutes the most promising basis for developing learning models that are capable of deciding for themselves what needs to be learned from a given experience. In addition, such methods appear capable of learning about planning at a very abstract level, and thus of supporting the transfer of knowledge from experience in one domain or task to other domains or tasks.