The Use of Parallelism to Implement a Heuristic Search

The role of parallel processing in heuristic search is examined by means of an example (cryptarithmetic addition). A problem solver is constructed that combines the metaphors of constraint propagation and hypothesize-and-test. The system is capable of working on many incompatible hypotheses at...

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Main Author: Kornfeld, William A.
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6352