Plan Explanation through Recommendations

Sarath Sreedharan, Trisha Ghali, David E. Smith

Keywords: Explaining Plan Failures, Supporting decision-making, Explanations for numeric planning

Abstract:

This paper aims to investigate an under-studied aspect of explanation, namely, its utility in helping users make better decisions.
We will investigate such problems in the context of a specific explanatory setting, namely, when the user suggests the execution of an incorrect plan.
Here, the system could help the user by pointing out how to update the current plan so as to avoid the failure.
Such methods could be combined with existing explanatory methods to create explanations that empower users to make more effective decisions.
Additionally, we will see how we could convert the problem of generating such plan recommendations into a planning problem of its own.
We will ground this problem in the context of numeric planning problems and evaluate the effectiveness of the formulation in some IPC benchmark problems.

Paper Type: New Short Paper

Submission Number: 4