Goals and plans in a program for playing Go

A program that plays Go provides a basis for analyzing possibilities for extending present AI conceptions of planning and goal structures to problems that are ill-structured, dynamic, multiperson, resource-bound, and highly interactive. The focus is on mechanisms for communicating information and control over time and among a number of interacting processes, in a flexible but coherent manner. Using the capabilities of current computer languages, it is possible to specify planning and goal structures, and appropriate conventions for them, that will accommodate the demands of these increasingly complex and sophisticated problem environments.