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In this paper we describe how we integrated ontological knowledge into a planning domain definition system. We claim that this approach has two main benefits: (i) from the user point of view, existing ontologies previously developed inside the company can be reused (ii) from the planning system point of view ontology semantics can be used to infer domain properties that are not explicitly represented by the user. The specific contribution described in this paper is the use of OWL semantics beyond subsumption to infer knowledge in the planning domain definition. We demonstrate how this is done and describe a system that can utilize the technique to solve practical problems.
The authors would like to thank their colleagues at BT for their help in the preparation of this paper and the support provided during the implementation of the software that we report here. We would also like to thank the anonymous referees on the AI-2006 program committee.
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Cioffi, M., Thompson, S. (2007). Planning with the Semantic Web by fusing Ontologies and Planning Domain Definitions. In: Bramer, M., Coenen, F., Tuson, A. (eds) Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIII. SGAI 2006. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-663-6_21
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