This application is the real world creates new opportunities for synergy between theory and practice: observing what works well in practice leads to better planning theory, and theories which better leads to better performance than practical application. This book is beyond classical planning, to include temporal planning, resource scheduling, planning in uncertainty, and modern techniques for plan generation, such as task decomposition, propositional satisfiability, constraint satisfaction, and examination of the model. * Covers all topics of contemporary planning, as well as important practical applications of planning, such as checking the model and play games. * Presents case studies and applications in engineering design, space, robotics, CAD / CAM, process control, emergency operations, and games. * Provides lecture notes, examples of programming tasks, a pointer to download the planning system and related information online.