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To appear in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP). Dynamic systems play a central role in fields such as planning, verification, and databases. Fragmented throughout these fields, we find a multitude of languages to formally…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Bart Bogaerts , Joachim Jansen , Maurice Bruynooghe , Broes De Cat , Joost Vennekens , Marc Denecker

Generating an abstraction of a dynamic domain that aligns with a given purpose remains a significant challenge given that the choice of such an abstraction can impact an agent's ability to plan, reason, and provide explanations effectively.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Bita Banihashemi , Megh Patel , Yves Lespérance

The reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) play a critical role in many downstream tasks, yet depend strongly on the quality of training data. Despite various proposed data construction methods, their practical utility in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yike Zhao , Simin Guo , Ziqing Yang , Shifan Han , Dahua Lin , Fei Tan

The planning ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) has garnered increasing attention in recent years due to their remarkable capacity for multi-step reasoning and their ability to generalize across a wide range of domains. While some…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Mohamed Aghzal , Erion Plaku , Gregory J. Stein , Ziyu Yao

We propose a new declarative planning language, called K, which is based on principles and methods of logic programming. In this language, transitions between states of knowledge can be described, rather than transitions between completely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Thomas Eiter , Wolfgang Faber , Nicola Leone , Gerald Pfeifer , Axel Polleres

There is a growing interest in applying pre-trained large language models (LLMs) to planning problems. However, methods that use LLMs directly as planners are currently impractical due to several factors, including limited correctness of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Lin Guan , Karthik Valmeekam , Sarath Sreedharan , Subbarao Kambhampati

By adequate employing of complex event processing (CEP), valuable information can be extracted from the underlying complex system and used in controlling and decision situations. An example application area is management of IT systems for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Istvan David

Since the introduction of the PDDL+ modeling language, it was known that temporal planning with durative actions (as in PDDL 2.1) could be compiled into PDDL+. However, no practical compilation was presented in the literature ever since. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Andrea Micheli , Enrico Scala , Alessandro Valentini

This chapter reviews the purpose and use of models from the field of complex systems and, in particular, the implications of trying to use models to understand or make decisions within complex situations, such as policy makers usually face.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-11-25 Bruce Edmonds , Carlos Gershenson

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across diverse tasks, yet their ability to perform structured symbolic planning remains limited, particularly in domains requiring formal representations like the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Pulkit Verma , Ngoc La , Anthony Favier , Swaroop Mishra , Julie A. Shah

Even though there are sophisticated AI planning algorithms, many integrated, large-scale projects do not use planning. One reason seems to be the missing support by engineering tools such as syntax highlighting and visualization. We propose…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Volker Strobel , Alexandra Kirsch

Manually creating Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) descriptions is difficult, error-prone, and requires extensive expert knowledge. However, this knowledge is already embedded in engineering models and can be reused. Therefore,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Hamied Nabizada , Tom Jeleniewski , Felix Gehlhoff , Alexander Fay

This paper considers the problem of reasoning on massive amounts of (possibly distributed) data. Presently, existing proposals show some limitations: {\em (i)} the quantity of data that can be handled contemporarily is limited, due to the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Giorgio Terracina , Nicola Leone , Vincenzino Lio , Claudio Panetta

Real world applications of planning, like in industry and robotics, require modelling rich and diverse scenarios. Their resolution usually requires coordinated and concurrent action executions. In several cases, such planning problems are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-07 D. Pellier , H. Fiorino , M. Grand , A. Albore , R. Bailon-Ruiz

Structured Query Language (SQL) has remained the standard query language for databases. SQL is highly optimized for processing structured data laid out in relations. Meanwhile, in the present application development landscape, it is highly…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Udesh Kumarasinghe , Tyler Liu , Ahmed R. Mahmood , Chunwei Liu , Walid G. Aref

The search for information on the web is faced with several problems, which arise on the one hand from the vast number of available sources, and on the other hand from their heterogeneity. A promising approach is the use of multi-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 T. Eiter , M. Fink , G. Sabbatini , H. Tompits

The Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) is the state-of-the-art language for specifying planning problems in artificial intelligence research. Writing and maintaining these planning problems, however, can be time-consuming and error…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Volker Strobel , Alexandra Kirsch

We present an end-to-end framework for planning supported by verifiers. An orchestrator receives a human specification written in natural language and converts it into a PDDL (Planning Domain Definition Language) model, where the domain and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Emanuele La Malfa , Ping Zhu , Samuele Marro , Sara Bernardini , Michael Wooldridge

The advancement of vision language models (VLMs) has empowered embodied agents to accomplish simple multimodal planning tasks, but not long-horizon ones requiring long sequences of actions. In text-only simulations, long-horizon planning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Muyu He , Yuxi Zheng , Yuchen Liu , Zijian An , Bill Cai , Jiani Huang , Lifeng Zhou , Feng Liu , Ziyang Li , Li Zhang

The inception of large language models has helped advance state-of-the-art performance on numerous natural language tasks. This has also opened the door for the development of foundation models for other domains and data modalities such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Yara Rizk , Praveen Venkateswaran , Vatche Isahagian , Vinod Muthusamy