© 2000 Todd Neller.  A.I.M.A. text figures © 1995 Prentice Hall.  Used by permission.
Greedy Search
•Heuristic Function h(n) - estimated cost of the cheapest path from n to a goal node
•Greedy Search: Best-First Search with
• f(n) = h(n)
•“Always choose the node that looks closest to the goal next.”
•Can think of h as the height of a “search terrain”.  In greedy search, you would look for the next biggest step down from where you’ve been.