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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Search

You're reading from   Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Search Building intelligent applications and perform enterprise searches

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789611151
Length 124 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Devangini Patel Devangini Patel
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Understanding the Heuristic Search Algorithm

Heuristic searching is an AI search technique that utilizes a heuristic for its functionality. A heuristic is a general guideline that most likely prompts an answer. Heuristics assume a noteworthy role in searching strategies, in view of the exponential nature of most problems. Heuristics help to decrease a high quantity of options from an exponential number to a polynomial number. In artificial intelligence (AI), heuristic searching is of general significance, and also has specific importance. In a general sense, the term heuristic is utilized for any exercise that is regularly successful, but isn't certain to work in every situation. In heuristic search design, the term heuristic often alludes to the extraordinary instance of a heuristic evaluation function.

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