© 2000 Todd Neller.  A.I.M.A. text figures © 1995 Prentice Hall.  Used by permission.
Intelligent Backtracking
•Example: Maine must be colored green. We start by coloring New Hampshire green, and finish with Maine as the last variable for instantiation. à thrashing
•During search, one can keep track of the way in which variable instantiations constrain other variable instantiations.
•Then one can backtrack to the cause of instantiation failure.