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title: "Landmark-Based Heuristics and Search Control for Automated Planning (Extended Abstract)"
authors:
  - "Silvia Richter"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/470"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/0470.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2013
pages: "3126-3129"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Landmark-Based Heuristics and Search Control for Automated Planning (Extended Abstract)

Silvia Richter

*Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 3126-3129.

## Abstract

Automated planning is the process of automatically selecting actions that achieve a desired outcome. This paper summarises several contributions that improve the efficiency of automated planning via heuristic search. We discuss novel heuristics based on landmarks and a search algorithm for anytime planning. Furthermore, we analyse various search-enhancement techniques and show how the combination of these techniques lead to a planning system that proved highly successful in the 2008 and 2011 International Planning Competitions.