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| Title: |
Reasoning with Plans: Inference of Semantic Relationships Among Plans About Urban Development |
| Authors: |
Kaza, Nikhil |
| Keywords: |
Plans
Interdependence
Organizations
Intentions
Substitutability |
| Issue Date: |
2008 |
| Citation Information: |
Dissertation Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Regional Planning in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008 |
| Abstract / Summary: |
Plans have been considered the end products of planning activity, and research
has focused on how plans are made. Careful thought has not been accorded to
how plans are used, after they are made, in reasoning about and choosing how
to act. In any given situation, various organisations make plans, some of which
have overlapping scopes and intersecting intentions. As a result, the actions considered
in these plans have semantic relationships such as substitutability, interdependence,
and contingency with one another. The purpose of this dissertation
is to identify and explain the semantic relationships between actions within and
among plans to better understand how to reason with plans and about actions.
The thesis defended is that it is useful and possible to reason from multiple plans
when deciding what to do. A plan contains information about interdependencies
and uncertainties of multiple decisions and actions considered by an actor.
These relationships are not limited to actions within one’s own purview. One has
to consider also the effects of others’ actions and intentions on one’s own. Since
a single plan cannot account for all these interdependencies even for one actor,
every actor should consider multiple plans–both plans of her own and those of
others–in making decisions.
This dissertation examines the various plans made over time by various organisations
in McHenry and Champaign counties in Illinois. Relationships between
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actions within and among multiple plans can be discovered using attributes of
actions and the configurations of actions within a single plan so that they can
be considered in future planning and decision making. It builds upon multiple
disciplines and methodologies to represent actions, situations, intentions, and
relationships among them.
Simple databases based on real situations were used to demonstrate that these
relationships can be encoded and queried in reasoning with plans. The results
demonstrated that previously discovered semantic relationships can be used to
discover additional relationships across plans thereby enriching the decision making.
The approach provides a systematic way of structuring the information in
plans so that reasoning about relationships among actions across multiple plans
is possible. |
| URI: |
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/5129 |
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| Genre of Resource: |
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