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In addition to the plan representation, a technique for building plans is needed. The task of plan construction can be formulated as a search problem, where we search in a space containing all possible plans for a consistent plan that satisfies our goal conditions. There are two main paradigms for search: refinement search and local search. The figure below contrasts these paradigms.

• Refinement Search
• Local Search
• Search-Paradigm Discussion

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Last update:
May 19, 2001 by Alexander Nareyek