`ISRN Artificial IntelligenceVolume 2012 (2012), Article ID 714245, 9 pageshttp://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/714245`
Research Article

## Planning for Multiple Preferences versus Planning with No Preference

Department of Computer Science, Utah State University, 4205 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322, USA

Received 26 July 2011; Accepted 27 August 2011

Academic Editors: P. Brezillon, K. W. Chau, and L. Utkin

Copyright © 2012 Daniel Bryce. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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