Description:
<jats:p>This paper describes <jats:sc>ILP-PLAN</jats:sc>, a framework for solving AI planning problems represented as integer linear programs. <jats:sc>ILP-PLAN</jats:sc> extends the planning as satisfiability framework to handle plans with resources, action costs, and complex objective functions. We show that challenging planning problems can be effectively solved using both traditional branch-and-bound integer programming solvers and efficient new integer local search algorithms. <jats:sc>ILP-PLAN</jats:sc> can find better quality solutions for a set of hard benchmark logistics planning problems than had been found by any earlier system.</jats:p>