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Künstliche Intelligenz – Special Issue on NLP and Semantics, 35: 367–375. 2021.\n
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@Article{Bercher2021DIY,\n author = {Pascal Bercher and Gregor Behnke and Matthias Kraus and Marvin Schiller and Dietrich Manstetten and Michael Dambier and Michael Dorna and Wolfgang Minker and Birte Glimm and Susanne Biundo},\n title = {Do It Yourself, but Not Alone: Companion-Technology for Home Improvement -- Bringing a Planning-Based Interactive DIY Assistant to Life},\n journal = {K{\\"u}nstliche Intelligenz -- Special Issue on NLP and Semantics},\n year = {2021},\n abstract = {We report on the technology transfer project “Do it yourself, but not alone: Companion-Technology for Home Improvement” that was carried out by Ulm University in cooperation with Robert Bosch GmbH. We developed a prototypical assistance system that assists a Do It Yourself (DIY) handyman in carrying out DIY projects. The assistant, based on various AI and dialog management capabilities, generates a sequence of detailed instructions that users may just follow or adapt according to their individual preferences. It features explanation capabilities as well as pro-active support based on communication with the user as well as with the involved tools. We report on the project’s main achievements, including the findings of various empirical studies conducted in various development stages of the prototype.},\n doi = {10.1007/s13218-021-00721-x},\n pages = {367--375},\n volume = {35},\n url_Paper_free-access = {https://rdcu.be/cmGwb},\n url_Paper = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13218-021-00721-x}\n}\n\n\n
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\n We report on the technology transfer project “Do it yourself, but not alone: Companion-Technology for Home Improvement” that was carried out by Ulm University in cooperation with Robert Bosch GmbH. We developed a prototypical assistance system that assists a Do It Yourself (DIY) handyman in carrying out DIY projects. The assistant, based on various AI and dialog management capabilities, generates a sequence of detailed instructions that users may just follow or adapt according to their individual preferences. It features explanation capabilities as well as pro-active support based on communication with the user as well as with the involved tools. We report on the project’s main achievements, including the findings of various empirical studies conducted in various development stages of the prototype.\n
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\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n The PANDA Framework for Hierarchical Planning.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Daniel Höller; Gregor Behnke; Pascal Bercher; and Susanne Biundo.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n
KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, 35: 391–396. 2021.\n
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@Article{Hoeller2021PANDA,\n author = {Daniel H\\"oller and Gregor Behnke and Pascal Bercher and Susanne Biundo},\n title = {The PANDA Framework for Hierarchical Planning},\n journal = {KI -- Künstliche Intelligenz},\n year = {2021},\n doi = {10.1007/s13218-020-00699-y},\n abstract = {During the last years, much progress has been made in hierarchical planning towards domain-independent systems that come with sophisticated techniques to solve planning problems instead of relying on advice in the input model. Several of these novel methods have been integrated into the PANDA framework, which is a software system to reason about hierarchical planning tasks. Besides solvers for planning problems based on plan space search, progression search, and translation to propositional logic, it also includes techniques for related problems like plan repair, plan and goal recognition, or plan verification. These various techniques share a common infrastructure, like e.g. a standard input language or components for grounding and reachability analysis. This article gives an overview over the PANDA framework, introduces the basic techniques from a high level perspective, and surveys the literature describing the diverse components in detail.},\n pages = {391--396},\n volume = {35},\n url_Paper = {https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s13218-020-00699-y}\n}\n\n\n\n
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\n During the last years, much progress has been made in hierarchical planning towards domain-independent systems that come with sophisticated techniques to solve planning problems instead of relying on advice in the input model. Several of these novel methods have been integrated into the PANDA framework, which is a software system to reason about hierarchical planning tasks. Besides solvers for planning problems based on plan space search, progression search, and translation to propositional logic, it also includes techniques for related problems like plan repair, plan and goal recognition, or plan verification. These various techniques share a common infrastructure, like e.g. a standard input language or components for grounding and reachability analysis. This article gives an overview over the PANDA framework, introduces the basic techniques from a high level perspective, and surveys the literature describing the diverse components in detail.\n
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\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Report on the First and Second Workshops on Hierarchical Planning Held at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Pascal Bercher; Daniel Höller; Gregor Behnke; Susanne Biundo; Vikas Shivashankar; and Ron Alford.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n
AI Magazine, 42(1): 83–85. 2021.\n
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@Article{Bercher2021HPlanWorkshopReport,\n author = {Pascal Bercher and Daniel H\\"oller and Gregor Behnke and Susanne Biundo and Vikas Shivashankar and Ron Alford},\n title = {Report on the First and Second Workshops on Hierarchical Planning Held at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling},\n journal = {AI Magazine},\n year = {2021},\n volume = {42},\n number = {1},\n pages = {83--85},\n abstract = {Hierarchical planning has attracted renewed interest in the last couple of years. As a consequence, the time was right to establish a workshop devoted entirely to hierarchical planning -- an insight shared by many supporters. In this paper we report on the first ICAPS workshop on Hierarchical Planning held in Delft, The Netherlands, in 2018 as well as on the second workshop held in Berkeley, CA, USA, in 2019.},\n url_Paper = {https://bercher.net/publications/2021/Bercher2021HPlanWorkshopReport.pdf},\n url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/7393},\n}\n\n\n\n
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\n Hierarchical planning has attracted renewed interest in the last couple of years. As a consequence, the time was right to establish a workshop devoted entirely to hierarchical planning – an insight shared by many supporters. In this paper we report on the first ICAPS workshop on Hierarchical Planning held in Delft, The Netherlands, in 2018 as well as on the second workshop held in Berkeley, CA, USA, in 2019.\n
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