AI planning requires the definition of action models using a formal action and plan description language, such as the standard Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL), as input.
The United States, which had pushed hard for Georgia and Ukraine to get a formal membership action plan at the April meeting in Bucharest, argued here that such a plan was unimportant.
The ministers decided to move ahead with that cooperation and leave to the future, "without prejudice," decisions about whether both countries will also need to go through a formal "membership action plan," as Germany and France now insist.
The organization's Division I baseball committee may discuss it at its meeting in July, though no formal action is planned.
Intentions to modify management behaviour were recorded using the formal written action plans developed during the extension programme.
But whether the expected consequences generated by an affirmative action plan that violates formal equality of opportunity are bad, good, or neutral, there remains the violation of formal equality of opportunity, which some will view as in itself a grave injustice.
Mr. Putin hailed today's agreement -- which was described as an "action plan," not a formal treaty -- as a historic document in Russian and Japanese relations.
