Bäckström, C., Jonsson, P. and Ordyniak, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-1935-651X (2018) Novel Structural Parameters for Acyclic Planning Using Tree Embeddings. In: Lang, J., (ed.) International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization 2018, 13-19 Jul 2018, Stockholm. IJCAI , pp. 4653-4659. ISBN 978-0-9992411-2-7
Abstract
We introduce two novel structural parameters for acyclic planning (planning restricted to instances with acyclic causal graphs): up-depth and down-depth. We show that cost-optimal acyclic planning restricted to instances with bounded domain size and bounded up- or down-depth can be solved in polynomial time. For example, many of the tractable subclasses based on polytrees are covered by our result. We analyze the parameterized complexity of planning with bounded up- and down-depth: in a certain sense, down-depth has better computational properties than up-depth. Finally, we show that computing up- and down-depth are fixed-parameter tractable problems, just as many other structural parameters that are used in computer science. We view our results as a natural step towards understanding the complexity of acyclic planning with bounded treewidth and other parameters.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. |
Keywords: | Planning and Scheduling: Planning Algorithms; Planning and Scheduling: Theoretical Foundations of Planning |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Computer Science (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2018 11:48 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:50 |
Published Version: | http://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2018/647 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IJCAI |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:133930 |