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On the Use of Landmarks in LPG

@inproceedings{Benzi2015OnTU,
  title={On the Use of Landmarks in LPG},
  author={Francesco Benzi and Alfonso Gerevini and Alessandro Saetti and Ivan Serina},
  booktitle={IPS@AI*IA},
  year={2015}
}
Domain-Independent planning is notoriously a very hard search problem. In the literature, several techniques for search control have been proposed in the context of various planning formalisms. In particular, Landmark techniques have been widely used in the planning community in order to guide the search process or to define heuristic functions. A Landmark can be defined as a logical expression, consisting of facts or actions, that certainly becomes true in any solution plan for that problem… 
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