A Temporal Planning Example with Assumption-Based Argumentation

Xiuyi Fan

Abstract: Agent planning has attracted much research attention in recent years. In argumentation, agent planning has been studied by several researchers with significant contributions made in modelling agent goals, desires and actions. However, there is little work that connects argumentation semantics, plan construction and temporal information in a unified framework. In this work, we use a version of the classic blocks world planning problem as our case study and demonstrate how Assumption-based Argumentation can be used to tackle planning problems with explicit time step information. In our approach, the process of plan construction is equated to constructing acceptable arguments (with respect to an argumentation semantics) with temporal aspects taken into consideration.