By Fausto Giunchiglia, Paolo Traverso (auth.), Susanne Biundo, Maria Fox (eds.)
This booklet constitutes the completely refereed post-proceedings of the fifth ecu convention on making plans, ECP'99, held in Durham, united kingdom, in September 1999.
The 27 revised complete papers provided including one invited survey have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen for inclusion within the publication. They handle all present facets of AI making plans and scheduling. numerous well-known making plans paradigms are represented, together with making plans as satisfiability and different version checking concepts, making plans as heuristic state-space seek, and Graph-plan-based methods. additionally, numerous new scheduling ways and combos of making plans and scheduling tools are brought.