Recent research shows that Integer Programming techniques are a very promising tool in the AI Planning area. In this paper
we define the planning problem as a submarking reachability problem in a Petri net, which is solved by the use of standard
IP methods. Using a similar idea to that of the Blackbox algorithm, we show how to translate the plan graph obtained in the first phase of Graphplan into an acyclic Petri net.
Keywords AI Planning - Petri Nets - Reachability - Integer Programming.