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GENERAL HEURISTIC [3 records]

Record 1 2010-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)
  • Corporate Management (General)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

The setting of goals at one level and determining what means are necessary to achieve them, then passing these means down to the next level where they become goals.

CONT

The general heuristic called means-end analysis is related to specific task performing : the problem statement is transformed into a target or goal state that represents the solution to the problem. This state provides a means of identifying a proper solution to the problem. The program then identifies sequentially the operations that reduce the difference between the new present state and the goal state.

OBS

means-ends analysis; means-end analysis: terms standardized by the International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)
  • Gestion de l'entreprise (Généralités)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Technique qui consiste à déterminer une différence entre l'état souhaité (but) et la situation présente; chercher un opérateur qui réduise cette différence. Au cas où l'opérateur n'est pas immédiatement applicable, ses conditions d'applicabilité deviennent le nouveau but.

OBS

analyse moyens-fins; analyse moyens-fin : termes normalisés par l'Organisation internationale de normalisation/Commission électrotechnique internationale (ISO/CEI).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Operaciones de la gestión (Generalidades)
  • Gestión de la empresa (Generalidades)
  • Inteligencia artificial
DEF

Método de razonamiento que mira hacia atrás y hacia delante, desde el punto inicial a la meta, en un intento por reducir las diferencias.

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Record 2 1989-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
DEF

A knowledge representation framework that places the emphasis on the crucial rides of the domain, adapting instruction to different viewpoint.

CONT

VanLehn and Brown(1980) propose the mechanism of planning nets for representing the meaning of procedures from a teleological perspective. A planning net is a directed graph. Nodes contain increasingly expanded flow charts that represent the partial design stages of a procedure being synthesized from first principles. Links stand both for domain-dependent constraints the procedure must comply with regarding the operation, the representation, or the physical substrate, and for general planning and derivational heuristics used to resolve violations of constraints. Two nodes are linked if applying a constraint or a heuristic to the procedure of the first one leads to the new version of the second one. The last node of the graph is the complete procedure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente
OBS

planificateur: programme générateur d'énoncés d'action à partir d'une base de tels énoncés et d'un but déterminé.

Spanish

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Record 3 1989-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • Mathematics
DEF

A process or philosophy that aids in the solution of a wide range of problems.

CONT

The process of working backward in theorem proving is a general heuristic.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Logiciels
  • Mathématiques
OBS

voir heuristique et heuristique spéciale.

Spanish

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