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- From: mgv@cs.scarolina.edu (Marco Valtorta)
- Subject: Re: Learning Heuristics
- Message-ID: <mgv.720671535@larch.cs.scarolina.edu>
- Keywords: search, heuristics, automated reasoning.
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Oct29.132745.3748@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <55471@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 2 Nov 92 02:32:15 GMT
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- fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett) writes:
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- >gemenis@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Theodor Gemenis) writes:
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- >>I would like to know something more about Search, Heuristics and especially
- >>automated lerning of heuristics. My state of the art is that of the special
- >>issue on search and heuristics of the Artificial Intelligece Journal, Vo. 21,
- >>March 1983. Could someone inform me about new work on the field.
- >>
- >>My purpose is to learn heuristics for reasoning systems (theorem proovers).
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- >Armand Prieditis did a PhD thesis at Rutgers University on the automatic
- >construction of admissible heuristics for A* search. His system is called
- >ABSOLVER and he's published several papers on it; I think the latest was in
- >IJCAI-91 (Sydney). I don't know how applicable his work is to theorem
- >proving, but it's a good place to start.
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- >-Tom
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- Yes, Armand had a paper on Absolver at IJCAI-91. He also had a paper
- on Absolver at IJCAI-89 (Detroit), which was coauthored with
- Jack Mostow, his thesis adviser. You may also want to read ``A New
- Result on the Complexity of Heurstics for the A* Algorithm,''
- by Othar Hansson, Andy Mayer, and Marco Valtorta, in _Artificial Intelligence_,
- 55, 1 (May 1992), 129-143.
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