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Clearly, an automatic system for the solution of planning problems must be able to internally represent states, actions and goals. In particular, in order to build an automated planning system, one must provide at least the following elements: (1) a syntax for representing world states, goals and actions; (2) a general algorithm Θ for calculating the state description s' = α(s) resulting from applying any action description α to any given state description s; and (3) a general algorithm Γ for deciding whether any goal description G holds (or is satisfied) in a given state description.
Since those uncertainties are not associated with probabilities and thus are not quantified in our framework, we refer to them as qualitative uncertainties. Indeed, this is a common setting, as probabilities are often hard to obtain or are simply unknown. In the context of non-deterministic planning problems, optimistic plans can establish the goal in some non-deterministic evolutions, while so-called secure or conformant plans (Goldman & Boddy, 1996; Smith & Weld, 1998) establish the goal for all possible evolutions, that is, the plan is executable from every initial state and eventually establishes the goal in any possible evolution.
Both of these principles should also be viewed in the light of “elaboration tolerance” in the sense of McCarthy (1999). Flexible frameworks such as K leave much of the responsibility of how far domain- and problem-specific knowledge is exploited up to the user. Knowledge state encodings somehow relieve the user from encoding every possible constraint on legal states of a particular domain by simply leaving “irrelevant” information open. We have discussed the applicability of the knowledge state view versus the world state view and the concept of forgetting about fluents with illustrative examples in the Paint and Ring domains.