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First of all, I really appreciate your response, especially since you are not familiar with these topics I understand what you're trying to say and I think you are right about it. Now it's my turn to think Cheers

I am writing a survey with the title "Constraint Processing in Automated Planning". The current version is quite simple: (i) it introduces planning problems, constraint satisfaction probems, and (ii) briefly describes three cases where constraint satisfaction problems are used to solve planning problems. I was asked by my supervisor to improve it, and I need your help on this (see below), because admittedly, I am not an expert in neither constraint processing or planning & scheduling. To improve it along the lines of his suggestions, I might even have to rewrite it from scratch and only keep a few things. In other words, there is no such thing as a too radical suggestion from your part. I read the book Automated Planning (Ghallab, Nau & Traverso) and picked out the cases where CSPs where involved in solving a planning problem: converting a state-variable represented problem into a CSP and then solving it using PA networks for partial-order planning using any temporal CSP for chronicle planning Then I briefly described each topic in its own section in my survey. My supervisor, however, asked me to "scope" the survey in a problem-oriented way. The current version just covers a set of unrelated cases of planning that use constraint techniques, because this is what i found in the book. He asked me to provide a motivation behind the survey. To confine the content within a specific "family" of planning problems and discuss how and why they benefit from constraint satisfaction techniques and most importantly, why I include those particular cases in my survey. I should do all that, having a strong bias towards constraint satisfaction techniques for re-planning and re-scheduling. It's not clear to me how I should go about this. I know there is a huge literature for both constraint satisfaction and planning & scheduling. Even though I think I understand what he means, what he is asking is too abstract if you are not an expert in the aforementioned fields. I would really appreciate it if you can provide any suggestions. Maybe explain how you perceive what he is asking me to do? Maybe provide some pointers to literature? Thank you in advance, Simon