Автор: Judea Pearl
Название: Heuristics: Intelligent Search Strategies for Computer Problem Solving
Издательство: Addison-Wesley
Год: 1984
ISBN: 0201055945
Серия: The Addison-Wesley series in artificial intelligence
Язык: English
Формат: djvu
Размер: 0,5 mb
Страниц: 399
The study of heuristics draws its inspiration from the ever-amazing observation of how much people can accomplish with that simplistic, unreliable information source known as intuition. We drive our cars with hardly any thought of how they function and only a vague mental picture of the road conditions ahead. We write complex computer programs while attending to only a fraction of the possibilities and interactions that may take place in the actual execution of these programs. Even more surprisingly, we maneuver our way successfully in intricate social situations having only a guesswork expectation of the behavior of other persons around and even less certainty of their expectations of us. Yet, when these expectations fail we are able to master the great power of humor and recover gracefully.
In more precise terms, heuristics stand for strategies using readily accessible though loosely applicable information to control problem-solving processes in human beings and machine. This book presents an analysis of the nature and the power of typical heuristic methods, primarily those used in artificial intelligence (AI) and operations research (OR) to solve problems of search, reasoning, planning and optimization on digital machines.