Heuristic programming: A survey |
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Authors: | F H GEORGE |
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Affiliation: | Brunel University and The Bureau of Information Science , Uxbridge, Middlesex |
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Abstract: | This survey of heuristic programming starts by considering the nature of an algorithm as an automatic and precise process. A heuristic, by contrast, in an approximate and uncertain process, although algorithms and heuristics should be regarded as lying on a continuum. An examination of various applications of heuristics follows, showing the wide range of their use from game playing and logic theorem proving to shop floor scheduling and natural language programming. |
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