Process Operators

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Definitions/Uses

1998
Reference	/Huff, 1988/ A Plan-based Intelligent Assistant that Supports the Software Development Process
Definition/ Use	Operators are parameterized templates defining the possible actions of the domain. Operator definitions follow the state-based, hierarchical planning approach. Each operator has a precondition defining the state that must hold in order for the action to be legal, and a set of effects that defined the state changes that result from performing the action. These core clauses are augmented by a goal clause that defines the principal effects of an action (thus distinguishing them from the side-effects" of the action), and a constraints clause that defines restrictions on parameter values. The unit-check-in operator in the figure above describes the action of checking a new version of a source module into a source code control system.

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