The Optimality of Satisficing Solutions

📝 Original Info

• Title: The Optimality of Satisficing Solutions
• ArXiv ID: 1304.2356
• Date: 2013-04-10
• Authors: Researchers from original ArXiv paper

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This paper addresses a prevailing assumption in single-agent heuristic search theory- that problem-solving algorithms should guarantee shortest-path solutions, which are typically called optimal. Optimality implies a metric for judging solution quality, where the optimal solution is the solution with the highest quality. When path-length is the metric, we will distinguish such solutions as p-optimal.

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This paper addresses a prevailing assumption in single-agent heuristic search theory- that problem-solving algorithms should guarantee shortest-path solutions, which are typically called optimal. Optimality implies a metric for judging solution quality, where the optimal solution is the solution with the highest quality. When path-length is the metric, we will distinguish such solutions as p-optimal.

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