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title: "Challenges in Bridging Plan Synthesis Paradigms"
authors:
  - "Subbarao Kambhampati"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/7"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/0007.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1997
pages: "44-48"
track: "AI Challenges"
keywords:
---

# Challenges in Bridging Plan Synthesis Paradigms

Subbarao Kambhampati

*Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 44-48.

## Abstract

In the last three years, several "radically new" and promising approaches have been developed for tackling the plan synthesis problem . Currently, these appr~aches exist in isolation as there is no coherent explanatiOn of their sources of strength vis a vis the traditional refinement planners. In this paper, I provide a generalizeview of refinement planning, that subsumes both traditional and newer approaches to plan synthesis. I will interpret the contributions of the new approaches in terms of a new subclass of refinement planners called "disjunctive planners". This unifying view raises several intriguing possibilities for complementing the strengths of the various approaches. I will identify and pose these as challenges to the planning community.