For some specialists a reasonable strategy is not to attempt to recover and merely
to cause the plan to
fail,
leading to selection of another
plan.
The position of the
specialist in the hierarchy, the degree of completion of the current
plan,
and the
amount of backtracking suggested will all affect the decision whether to try redesign.
Another way of deciding whether immediate failure is appropriate is to use some
measure of the "complexity" of the part of the plan already executed. One method of
estimating complexity is based on an estimate of how many design agents it will use.
If the complexity measure is too high the ...
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