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Purely Declarative Action Representations are Overrated : Classical Planning with Simulators

@inproceedings{Francs2017PurelyDA,
  title={Purely Declarative Action Representations are Overrated : Classical Planning with Simulators},
  author={Guillem Franc{\`e}s and Miquel Ram{\'i}rez and Nir Lipovetzky and Hector Geffner},
  year={2017}
}
Classical planning is concerned with problems where a goal needs to be reached from a known initial state by doing actions with deterministic, known effects. Classical planners, however, deal only with classical problems that can be expressed in declarative planning languages such as STRIPS or PDDL. This prevents their use on problems that are not easy to model declaratively or whose dynamics are given via simulations. Simulators do not provide a declarative representation of actions, but… 
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