1991
	Abstract of paper with N. Jain

	EXACT DOMINANCE WITHOUT SEARCH IN DECISION TREES




	Abstract

	In order to improve understanding of how planning and decision
	theory relate, we propose a hybrid model containing concepts from
	both.  This model is comparable to [Hartmann90], with slightly
	more detail.

	Dominance is a simple concept in decision theory.  IN a restricted
	version of our model, we give conditions under which dominance can
	be detected without search:  that is, it can be used as a pruning
	strategy to avoid growing large trees.  This investigation follows
	the lead of [Wellman87].

	The conditions seem hard to meet, but may nevertheless be useful
	in forward-chaining situation without focus, such as [Breese87].