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Planning in Markov Stochastic Task Domains
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International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (IJAE)
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Volume:  1    Issue:  3
Pages:  54-74
Publication Date:   October
ISSN (Online): 2180-124X
Pages 
54 - 64
Author(s)  
Yong Lin - United States of Ame
Fillia Makedon - United States of America
 
Published Date   
30-10-2010 
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CSC Journals, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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KEYWORDS:   Markov decision processes, POMDP, task planning, uncertainty, decision-making 
 
 
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In decision theoretic planning, a challenge for Markov decision processes (MDPs) and partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) is, many problem domains contain big state spaces and complex tasks, which will result in poor solution performance. We develop a task analysis and modeling (TAM) approach, in which the (PO)MDP model is separated into a task view and an action view. In the task view, TAM models the problem domain using a task equivalence model, with task-dependent abstract states and observations. We provide a learning algorithm to obtain the parameter values of task equivalence models. We present three typical examples to explain the TAM approach. Experimental results indicate our approach can greatly improve the computational capacity of task planning in Markov stochastic domains. 
 
 
 
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Yong Lin : Colleagues
Fillia Makedon : Colleagues  
 
 
 
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