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Search Strategies and Heuristics

Dear All,

Can anyone help regarding the above topic?

Thanx,
Shradha

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Permalink Reply by Mrs.K Kavita Rao on February 28, 2010 at 20:42
Dear shraddha

> A heuristic is a search procedure that may give an optimal (best)
solution to a problem but offers no guarantee of doing so. If it can be proven
that an exact solution exists, then this becomes an algorithm rather that a
heuristic search procedure.

Find more definitions at:
http://www.worms.ms.unimelb.edu.au/digest/heuristics.html

The following papers would be useful to you

http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/1985v09/i02/p0217p0260/MAIN.PDF

www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/download/534/470

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