© 2000 Todd Neller.  A.I.M.A. text figures © 1995 Prentice Hall.  Used by permission.
Iterative Improvement Search
•Hill-Climbing – greedy wandering, no queue, no backtracking
•Should be called “hill-descending” or “local optimization”
•Gets caught in local minima
•Local optimization with random restarts
•Local optimization with % random steps