This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Planning, ECP'97, held in Toulouse, France, in September 1997. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The range of topics covered spans all aspects of current artificial intelligence planning, from theoretical and foundational matters to actual planning of systems and applications in a variety of areas.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Planning, ECP'97, held in Toulouse, France, in September 1997. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The range of topics covered spans all aspects of current artificial intelligence planning, from theoretical and foundational matters to actual planning of systems and applications in a variety of areas.