A 1999 tutorial from Subbarao Kambhampati. Research in Planning Systems . Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington. Descriptions of several projects, with links to papers and related web sites. A summary by Patrick Doyle.
Planning is a problem solving technique.
Planning is reasoning about future events in order to verify the existence of a reasonable series of actions to take in order to accomplish a goal. Readings Online Planning and Scheduling Publications . From the University of Salford. An extensive collection of papers available online . By Tony Cassandra, Brown University's Computer Science Department.