Abstract
Formulating an evacuation plan can be quite complex: typically there will be hundreds of tasks to be carried out. These tasks will depend on a wide range of factors: sources of danger, available resources, geography, weather predictions, political issues, and so forth. Complete information about the current state will never be available; the planning must include dynamic information gathering, and plans must be formulated with an incomplete world state. For such a problem, the planning must be done by a human expert or under the supervision of a human expert. It is unrealistic to expect that a planning system could produce good plans by itself, and flawed evacuation plans could yield dire consequences. This chapter describes a plan formulation tool, Hierarchical Interactive Case-Based Architecture for Planning (HICAP) that is designed to assist experts in planning emergency evacuations. Because the plans are strongly hierarchical in nature, HICAP represents plans using HTNs.
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