In computer science and artificial intelligence, combinatorial search studies search algorithms for solving instances of problems that are believed to...
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Combinatorial optimization is a subfield of mathematical optimization that consists of finding an optimal object from a finite set of objects, where the...
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financial, or military strategy planning. This kind of problem — combinatorial search — has been extensively studied in the context of artificial intelligence...
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A* search algorithm is an example of a best-first search algorithm, as is B*. Best-first algorithms are often used for path finding in combinatorial search...
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Alpha–beta pruning (redirect from Alpha-beta search)
its search tree. It is an adversarial search algorithm used commonly for machine playing of two-player combinatorial games (Tic-tac-toe, Chess, Connect 4...
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The Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS) in an international conference aimed at bringing together researchers and all others interested in all fields...
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a combinatorial search instance may consist of the goal state itself, or of a path from some initial state to the goal state. In state-space search, a...
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Dijkstra's algorithm (redirect from Uniform-cost search)
Algorithm versus Uniform Cost Search or a Case Against Dijkstra's Algorithm. Proc. 4th Int'l Symp. on Combinatorial Search. Archived from the original on...
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Archived 2014-12-10 at the Wayback Machine", Fourth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search, 2011 Memorable quotes from Six Degrees of Separation. Accessed Nov...
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exhibit high complexity, requiring a combination of heuristics and combinatorial search methods to be solved in a reasonable time. Constraint programming...
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algorithm. A* achieves better performance by using heuristics to guide its search. Compared to Dijkstra's algorithm, the A* algorithm only finds the shortest...
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Combinatorial game theory is a branch of mathematics and theoretical computer science that typically studies sequential games with perfect information...
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algorithm Approximation algorithm Best and worst cases Big O notation Combinatorial search Competitive analysis Computability theory Computational complexity...
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dictionary. Lookahead or Look Ahead may refer to: A parameter of some combinatorial search algorithms, describing how deeply the graph representing the problem...
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quickly as the size of the problem increases (§Combinatorial explosion). Therefore, brute-force search is typically used when the problem size is limited...
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In computer science, binary search, also known as half-interval search, logarithmic search, or binary chop, is a search algorithm that finds the position...
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to have potential as a means to solve several other large-scale combinatorial search problems. Adleman is widely referred to as the Father of DNA Computing...
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Metaheuristic (section Local search vs. global search)
problems to combinatorial optimization or combinations thereof. In combinatorial optimization, an optimal solution is sought over a discrete search-space....
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"GRINDEF" (i.e. 'grind function') program (c. 1967), which used combinatorial search with pruning to format LISP programs. Early versions operated on...
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B* (redirect from B-star search algorithm)
strategy in a sum game of a set of combinatorial games. Branch and bound Berliner, Hans (1979). "The B* Tree Search Algorithm. A Best-First Proof Procedure"...
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Any-angle path planning (redirect from Any-angle search)
Algorithms. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search. A. Nash. Any-Angle Path Planning. PhD thesis, Department of Computer...
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Admissible heuristic (section Search algorithms)
"Common Misconceptions Concerning Heuristic Search". Proceedings of the Third Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS). Archived from the original on...
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ISBN 978-0-13-604259-4. Korf, Richard E. (2012). "Research Challenges in Combinatorial Search". In Hoffmann, Jörg; Selman, Bart (eds.). Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth...
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Artificial intelligence (redirect from Search and optimization)
insufficient for solving large reasoning problems because they experience a "combinatorial explosion": They become exponentially slower as the problems grow. Even...
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Reverse-search algorithms are a class of algorithms for generating all objects of a given size, from certain classes of combinatorial objects. In many...
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determine how well a given combinatorial construct reflects the observed data, or to search for a suitable combinatorial construct that does fit the...
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Optimization problem (redirect from Search space (mathematics))
constraints. In a discrete optimization problem, such as combinatorial optimization, the search space could consist of a finite set of permutations, combinations...
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involved in inhibiting the JAK-STAT signaling pathway Symposium on Combinatorial Search, international computer science conference System on a chip, an integrated...
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The golden-section search is a technique for finding an extremum (minimum or maximum) of a function inside a specified interval. For a strictly unimodal...
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touched because they are sacred. Tabu search is a metaheuristic algorithm that can be used for solving combinatorial optimization problems (problems where...
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