• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.1-12
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• 2006

As the needs of intelligent systems increase, there have been diverse approaches that combine artificial intelligence (AI) and simulation in the last decade. RG-DEVS, which is the basis for this paper, embedded AI planning techniques into the simulation modeling methodology of DEVS, in order to specify dynamically a simulation model. However, a hierarchy concept, which is used for various types of problem solving systems. is not included in the planning of RG-DEVS. The hierarchy concept reduces the computational cost of planning by reducing the search space, and also makes it easy to apply the hierarchical process flow of a target system to planning. This paper proposes Hierarchical RG-DEVS (HRG-DEVS) in an attempt to insert hierarchical planning capability into RG-DEVS. For the verification of the proposed modeling methodology, HRG-DEVS is applied to model the block's world problem of ABSTRIPS, which is a classical planning problem.