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Execution Flexibility in Automated Planning: A Comparative Evaluation of Deordering and Reordering Strategies
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arXiv:2609.16822v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study covers foundational concepts for enhancing plan-execution flexibility, including partial-order planning, the producer-consumer-threat formalism, and a range of deordering and reordering strategies. Creating a partial-order plan from a sequential one by removing unnecessary ordering constraints is a practical way to improve execution flexibility, and several methods have been proposed for this task. This study analyzes their capabilities across ordering, action handling, parameter handling, plan structure, concurrency, and complexity, and evaluates them against each other on a shared benchmark. The central finding is that block deordering-based approaches, which restructure causal dependencies through block-level grouping and subplan substitution, substantially outperform MaxSAT-based approaches despite the latter's theoretical guarantees of minimum reordering. The reason is structural: minimum reordering optimizes within the causal structure already present in the plan, whereas block deordering-based methods change that structure, exposing orderings that would otherwise appear necessary. A further distinction is practical: block deordering-based methods are anytime algorithms that always return a valid result, while MaxSAT-based methods fail entirely on a substantial portion of plans and offer no partial solution when they do. Block substitution further extends the parallel execution by formalizing non-concurrency co