文档介绍:Artificial Intelligence for
Advanced Problem Solving
Techniques
Dimitris Vrakas
Aristotle University, Greece
Ioannis PL. Vlahavas
Aristotle University, Greece
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Artificial intelligence for advanced problem solving techniques / DimitrisVrakas and Ioannis PL. Vlahavas, editors.
p. cm.
Summary: "This book offers scholars and practitioners cutting-edge research on algorithms and techniques such as search, domain
independent heuristics, scheduling, constraint satisfaction, optimization, configuration, and planning, and highlights the relationship
between the search categories and the various ways a specific application ca