Interval-Based Relaxation for General Numeric Planning

@inproceedings{Scala2016IntervalBasedRF,
  title={Interval-Based Relaxation for General Numeric Planning},
  author={E. Scala and Patrik Haslum and Sylvie Thi{\'e}baux and Miquel Ram{\'i}rez},
  booktitle={European Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year={2016}
}
. We generalise the interval-based relaxation to sequential numeric planning problems with non-linear conditions and effects, and cyclic dependencies. This effectively removes all the limi-tations on the problem placed in previous work on numeric planning heuristics, and even allows us to extend the planning language with a wider set of mathematical functions. Heuristics obtained from the generalised relaxation are pruning-safe. We derive one such heuristic and use it to solve discrete-time… 
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