Heuristic Functions
Fundamental tradeoff
Inventing heuristics: 8-puzzle example
Relaxed problem – problem with constraints
removed
Relax: A tile can move from A to B if A adjacent
to B and B is empty.
A tile can move from A to B if A adjacent to B.
A tile can move from A to B if A is empty.
A tile can move from A to B.
The cost of an exact solution to a relaxed problem
can provide a good heuristic h.