Part
IV
Planning with Time
and Resources
This part of the book is devoted to planning with time and resources. We will be
relaxing assumption A6 (Section 1.5 ), i.e., we will make time explicit in the rep-
resentation. However, we will keep assuming a deterministic system with complete
knowledge and no uncertainty (these three assumptions will be relaxed in Part V).
Part IV includes three chapters, on temporal reasoning, temporal planning, and
resource handling. In this introduction, we motivate the need for explicit time and
give an overview of the representation and approaches detailed in Chapters 13, 14,
and 15.
The conceptual model for planning described in Section 1.4 is mainly a general
model for a dynamic system. Up to here we relied on the model ...