top-down + bottom-up =

Hybrid Planning

….

Goal

Top Abstract Goals

Goal A

Task 1 Task 2

Goal B

Sub Goal B.1

Project A Project B Project C Project D

Problem A Problem B Problem C Problem D

Project AB

Project ABC Project CD

Sub Goal B.3 Sub Goal A.3

Meet in the middle

AggregateProjects

Project A

Project B

Project C

Project D

Project E+ F

Smart projects

An agent-based framework, in which,

The projects are aware of the abstract goals.

Projects will combine to achieve better things.

Projects can learn from experiences.

So the path to the goal will emerge.

It is all about rules learned from previous experiences.

Playbook approach, learn from successes

Case based reasoning, looks familiar? Then response in similar ways

A distributed planning approach

Integrating top-down planning with a bottom-up approach that learns to locally

combine actions• http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~bulka1/publicati

ons/SS0604BulkaB.pdf

A summary of the paper: