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Action description languages, such as \(\mathcal{A}\) and \(\mathcal{B}\) [6], are expressive instruments introduced for formalizing planning domains and problems. The paper starts by proposing a methodology to encode an action language (with conditional effects and static causal laws), a slight variation of \(\cal B\), using Constraint Logic Programming over Finite Domains. The approach is then generalized to lift the use of constraints to the level of the action language itself. A prototype implementation has been developed, and the preliminary results are presented and discussed.
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Dovier, A., Formisano, A., Pontelli, E. (2007). Multivalued Action Languages with Constraints in CLP(FD) . In: Dahl, V., Niemelä, I. (eds) Logic Programming. ICLP 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4670. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74610-2_18
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