1.3.5 Planning

Each participant is responsible for the part of the task that they can perform better.

Each participant is responsible for the part of the task that they can perform better. That means that the user is responsible for the top level goals of how to attack a problem. The system constantly tries to infer from the user's input what the user's goals are, with respect to the task. Based on that, it draws the user's attention to possible problems and makes relevant suggestions. Due to the aimed behaviour for the system, a lot of planning and plan recognition becomes necessary. The TRAINS system uses domain-specific reasoning techniques to make plan recognition less computationally expensive. As far as planning is concerned, the system is deliberately weak, so that more collaboration with the human user is provoked.


Dimitra Tsovaltzi, Stephan Walter and Aljoscha Burchardt
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