Preferences Satisficing
This track concerns planning with soft goals, which are desired goals that a valid plan does not have to necessarily achieve. Not achieving a goal implies a certain penalization added to the cost of the plan. Cost of the plan can be just the addition of the penalizations or some combination of the total actions cost and penalizations. Planners compete in terms of the quality of the plans they produce within a reasonable amount of time.
- Core features: STRIPS, action costs, goal utilities, metric quantities
- Optional features: ADL, derived predicates
- Objective function: Minimize total cost
Core features are those that will appear in most (if not all) of the domains. So, in order for a planner to have chances to win this track of the competition, all the core features must be supported. However, there will exist some domains that do not require all the core features.
Optional features concern alternative but equivalent versions of each domain. These features will be used only in cases where they facilitate domain modelling. When several alternative versions of a domain are supported by a planner, it is scored on the version on which it performs best.