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Furthermore, an important tradeoff exists between the time spent constructing a plan and its resulting chance of success. Several approaches to these problems have been investigated, including the use of decision-theoretic methods and the incorporation of reactivity into planners. We present a new technique called permissive planning. Explicit approximations are employed in representing the world state and operators. Plans are then constructed efficiently using the approximate theory. In response to plan execution failures, plans are refined so they become less sensitive to the approximate knowledge used in their initial construction. This is achieved by tuning parameters of the plan so as to minimize the expected future deviation.","abstract_html":"Classical planning techniques have some serious problems when employed in real-world domains. 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In response to plan execution failures, plans are refined so they become less sensitive to the approximate knowledge used in their initial construction. 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