PLANET: A tool for representing and generating plans in an RMS framework

Realistic planning must be viewed as an iteration of plan search, explanation generation, and observation. A framework that provides an ideal representation for all these purposes is the reason maintenance system (RMS). In order to capture all aspects of planning, the RMS must be able to model the functionality of the heuristic layer, the plan layer, and the domain layer in the dependency network. A description is presented of PLANET, a tool that provides such a facility along with a set of planning primitives, with which a user can represent the plan logic, formulate plan strategies, and generate explanations within a RMS framework.<>