Automating causal explanations of observed features using temporal planning
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2016-05-18

Temporal Planning is an automated method for finding a sequence of actions that converts one state of the world into another, over time. There has been a very large body of work in the area over the last 20 years, with application mainly in the domain of automating robot decision-making and goal-directed behaviour. In this paper we con-sider whether the same automated planning methods might be used to generate plausible explanations of how archaeological assemblages were formed, and the human, temporal and physical processes involved.

Maria FOX (King’s College London)