VLEPpO: A Visual Language for Problem Representation

O. Hatzi, D. Vrakas, N. Bassiliades, D. Anagnostopoulos, I. Vlahavas, “VLEPpO: A Visual Language for Problem Representation”, 26th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group, Roman Bartak (Ed.), pp. 60 - 66, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.

26th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group, Roman Bartak (Ed.), pp. 60 - 66, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.

AI planning constitutes a field of interest as its techniques can be applied to many areas. Contemporary systems that are being developed deal with certain aspects of planning and focus mainly on dealing with advanced features such as resources, time and numerical expressions. This paper presents VLEPpO, a Visual Language for Enhanced Planning problem Orchestration. VLEPpO is a visual programming environment that allows the user to easily define planning domains and problems, acquire their PDDL representations, as well as receive solutions, utilizing web services infrastructure.