Parallel Non-binary Planning in Polynomial Time : The SAS-PUS Class
Christer Bäckström, Inger Erlander Klein · 1991
This paper formally presents a class of planning problems, the SAS-PUS class, which allows non-binary state variables and parallel execution of actions. The class is proven to be tractable, and we provide a sound and complete, polynomial time algorithm for planning within this class. Since the SAS-PUS class is an extension of the previously presented SAS-PUBS class, this result means that we are getting closer to tackling realistic planning problems in sequential control. In such problems, a restricted problem representation is often sufficient but the size of the problems make tractability an important issue.