@article {18907, title = {IMPACTing SHOP: Putting an AI Planner Into a Multi-Agent Environment}, journal = {Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence}, volume = {37}, year = {2003}, month = {2003///}, pages = {381 - 407}, abstract = {In this paper we describe a formalism for integrating the SHOP HTN planning system with the IMPACT multi-agent environment. We define the A-SHOP algorithm, an agentized adaptation of the SHOP planning algorithm that takes advantage of IMPACT{\textquoteright}s capabilities for interacting with external agents, performing mixed symbolic/numeric computations, and making queries to distributed, heterogeneous information sources (such as arbitrary legacy and/or specialized data structures or external databases). We show that A-SHOP is both sound and complete if certain conditions are met.}, keywords = {Computer science}, isbn = {1012-2443}, doi = {10.1023/A:1021560510377}, url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/g4r0mn835846p65w/abstract/}, author = {Dix,J{\"u}rgen and Mu{\~n}oz-Avila,H{\'e}ctor and Nau, Dana S. and Zhang,Lingling} }