A Survey on Case-Based Planning

Case-based planning is the reuse of past successful plansin order to solve new planning problems.This paper presents a survey of case-based planning, in terms ofits historical roots, underlying foundations, methods andtechniques currently used, limitations, and future trends.Several authors have given overviews on case-based reasoningand specific topics such as case retrieval, case adaptation,and learning. This overview differs in focus.Its aim is to emphasize the case-based approach to planning,its methodological issues, and its relation to classical planningand the other kinds of case-based reasoning.It also provides some reference models.