Fikes and Nilsson: STRIPS planning

What changed

Goal-directed action planning became a concrete symbolic search process over state-changing operators.

Scientific scope

The 1971 STRIPS paper; later planning formalisms, generalized plans and robotic deployments are excluded.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. This entry is the 1971 two-author STRIPS paper. Later generalized plans, planning languages and robotics systems are separate developments.

Contributors

• Richard E. Fikes · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Nils J. Nilsson · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Fikes and Nilsson, STRIPS: A New Approach to the Application of Theorem Proving to Problem Solving
• Nils J. Nilsson publication archive

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