Least Commitment (Detail Postponement)
Postpone commitments unless forced
- Big idea in conjunctive refinement planning
- Partial-order planners: UCPOP, SNLP
- Interacts with precondition abstraction
- Becomes a non-issue in disjunctive planning
- There is very little commitment to begin with
- Encodings based on partial order planning can actually be worse off [Mali, 98]
- Exception: Variablized (“lifted”) representations