{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Reasoning about State Constraints in the Situation Calculus","authors":[{"name":"Naiqi Li","slug":"naiqi-li","given":"Naiqi","family":"Li","affiliation":""},{"name":"Yi Fan","slug":"yi-fan","given":"Yi","family":"Fan","affiliation":""},{"name":"Yongmei Liu","slug":"yongmei-liu","given":"Yongmei","family":"Liu","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"In dynamic systems, state constraints are formulas that hold in every reachable state. It has been shown that state constraints can be used to greatly reduce the planning search space. They are also useful in program verification. In this paper, we propose a sound but incomplete method for automatic verification and discovery of state constraints for a class of action theories that include many planning benchmarks. Our method is formulated in the situation calculus, theoretically based on Skolemization and Herbrand Theorem, and implemented with SAT solvers. Basically, we verify a state constraint by strengthening it in a novel and smart way so that it becomes a state invariant. We experimented with the blocks world, logistics and satellite domains, and the results showed that, almost all known state constraints can be verified in a reasonable amount of time, and meanwhile succinct and intuitive related state constraints are discovered.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/152","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/0152.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/152.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/bibtex/152","volume":{"slug":"2013","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2013","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/","year":2013,"location":"Beijing, China","dates":"3–9 August 2013","editors":"Francesca Rossi","isbn":"978-1-57735-633-2","publisher":"AAAI Press / International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":152,"pages":{"first":997,"last":1002},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}