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Date:Mon Nov 29 10:27:41 2002 
Subject:Austin Tate's Nonlin planner now available at Poplog site 
From:Aaron Sloman See text for reply address 
Volume-ID:1021129.01 


The influential Nonlin hierarchical partial order planning system,
developed by Austin Tate (http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/bat.html) in the
1970s and onwards in the University of Edinburgh is now available and
working again.

Nonlin was originally written in Pop2, then converted to Pop-11
in the 1980s.

However Nonlin stopped working several years ago because Pop-11 evolved
as a language -- described here
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/primer/index.html

Austin recently decided to make it run in current versions of Pop-11 and
now it works in both Unix/Linux Poplog and Windows poplog -- both
available from here:
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html
    http://www.poplog.org

Nonlin is available in browsable form in this directory
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/nonlin/

which also includes a downloadable zip file (about 750 Kbytes)
containing the package and instructions.

It is hoped that later the original 1975 technical report can be scanned
in and made avaiable as a PDF file.

Nonlin now has its own home page
    http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/nonlin/

Both directories include a Readme.txt file that includes instructions
and also a review of Nonlin and other influential planning systems.

    Subject: Rao's "Reminiscences of Influential Papers in Planning"
    From: Subbarao Kambhampati
    Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:53:08 -0700

    Paper:  Austin Tate: Generating Project Networks. IJCAI 1977: 888-893


Further information, including sample problem domain definitions using
the nonlin task formalism (TF) can be found in these directories:

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/nonlin/nonlin

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/nonlin/nonlin/tf/

Further information can be found by giving
    nonlin+planner
to http://www.google.com

Aaron
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Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
EMAIL A.Sloman AT cs.bham.ac.uk   (ReadATas@please !)
PAPERS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/ (And free book on Philosophy of AI)
FREE TOOLS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html