Connecting Blackbox/Simulation-Based Planner BFWS(R) (and possibly others) to external simulators such as Inform7.

[aindilis]

I am interested in using Inform7 (the interactive fiction programming language, which has recently been released open source - https://github.com/ganelson/inform ) with a project of mine called the Free Life Planner ( https://github.com/aindilis/free-life-planner ). But modeling Inform7 ( http://inform7.com/book/WI_1_1.html ) as PDDL for instance seems like a difficult and expensive idea. So I remembered reading about your paper: "Purely Declarative Action Representations are Overrated: Classical Planning with Simulators." ( https://www.dtic.upf.edu/~hgeffner/Guillem-IJCAI-2017.pdf ).

I was wondering if you had any advice for how to connect your BFWS(R) (or any other blackbox/simulation-based planner) to Inform7.

So far this is the only Inform7 planner I've found, and I doubt it would achieve the performance you mention: ( https://github.com/i7/extensions/blob/master/Nate%20Cull/Planner.i7x )

Would you know how to interface your planner with other software, including Inform7?

I still have yet to build and install your planner code (available here: https://github.com/aig-upf/2017-planning-with-simulators ), but am planning to make a Debian package for it, since it is GPLv3 (as part of the https://frdcsa.org/ project).