Doug/Azamat,
A set of actions is certainly one potential part of or viewpoint of a plan, but
to say that is what a plan is seems a stretch, at least from that ordinary
business and systems modeling perspective I tend to come from. I would say
that a plan can encompass any desired state of things, actions, laws and the
relations between them. A blueprint is a plan as is flight plan as is a
proposed bill in congress. (01)
So I would think a plan is then some kind of relation between the planning
entity and the intended states and/or laws and/or actions. I thought such a
set of intended states and actions was a possible world, but there is far too
much voodoo around that for me to say at this point. (02)
-Cory (03)
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On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:29, sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx said:
> Azamat,
> What you say below is consistent with what I said. Just one
> qualification: a plan is always a list of *proposed* actions. (05)
To be more specific, a plan is a list of proposed classes of actions.
There would almost always be an unlimited number of possible actual actions
that would fit within the constraints of the plan. In a rigidly structured
system, such as chess, a plan might include all possible actions. (06)
-- doug f (07)
> After
> the plan is executed, they can be discussed as completed actions. But
> as long as it remains a plan, they are in the future. And as Robert
> Burns said, "The best laid plans o' mice and men gang aft agley."
> Don't count your planned chickens before they're hatched.
>> It's a bit abstract even for a top-down planning
> approach. Any plan is a
>> list of actions and a set of
> hierarchical goals, constrained by timing and
>> resources.
> Formulated/created by planning and forecasting, a plan/program
>>
> is an ordered set: <actions, timing, resources, goals>.
>>
> Practiced planning classifications, from the general schema of things
> to
>
>> projects, strategies, roadmaps and guidelines, master plans and
> blueprints
>> to social plans, political plans, economic plans,
> business plans, or
>> military plans, favour such a pragmatic
> meaning.
>> Try your approach for a strategy, a plan of action,
> political, economic,
>> business, or military, like, say, U.S.
> plan to invade Iraq. Or, for
>> budget, pension plan or employee
> savings plan. Or, for a master plan of
>> sustainable development.
>
>> Azamat
>> PS: It appears planning/forecasting is a key
> characteristic of
>> intelligence.
> I agree with the PS --
> and many animals, including mice, have sufficient intelligence to make
> plans.
> John
>
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