What you get is what you see: Decomposing Epistemic Planning using Functional STRIPS

Abstract

Epistemic planning --- planning with knowledge and belief --- is essential in many multi-agent and human-agent interaction domains. Most state-of-the-art epistemic planners solve this problem by compiling to propositional classical planning, for example, generating all possible knowledge atoms, or compiling epistemic formula to normal forms.It is noted that the compilations are typically exponentially larger than the original problem. However, these methods become computationally infeasible as problems grow. In addition, those methods only works on propositional variables in discrete domains. In this thesis, we decompose epistemic planning by delegating epistemic logic reasoning to an exte..