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HEURISTIC DECISION [4 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2018-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Psychology
CONT

In cognitive science, and particularly in the field of artificial intelligence, heuristic decision making is described as bottom-up logic; that is, rules used and decisions arrived at arise from incompletely understood experience of what works.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Psychologie cognitive
CONT

Les performances cognitives basées sur les règles correspondent à des prises de décision heuristiques. Elles reposent sur la mise en place de procédures d'action, contrôlées par des règles ou des procédures dérivées d'expériences antérieures. Elles correspondent à un raisonnement intuitif, de sens commun et par analogie.

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

In expert systems, this refers to the process whereby one or more branches of a decision tree are "cut off" or ignored. In effect, when an expert system consultation is underway, heuristic rules reduce the search space by determining that certain branches(or subsets of rules) can be ignored.

OBS

pruning, cut-off: terms standardized by ISO and CSA.

Key term(s)
  • cutoff
  • tree cut-off

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Procédure d'optimisation en résolution de problèmes.

DEF

Élimination de sommets et de leurs successeurs selon des techniques telles alpha-bêta, minimaux et négamax, lorsqu'ils ne passent pas le test d'acceptabilité.

CONT

élagage alpha-bêta, élagage heuristique.

OBS

élagage : terme normalisé par l'ISO et la CSA.

Spanish

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Record 3 1993-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Internet and Telematics
OBS

Term standardized by AFNOR.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Internet et télématique
DEF

Décision de l'utilisateur de service CCR qui a offert la validation au supérieur et qui libère ensuite toutes ou une partie de ses données liées avant que le supérieur ne lui ait ordonné de valider ou d'effectuer le retour arrière.

OBS

Terme et définition normalisés par l'AFNOR.

Spanish

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Record 4 1981-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)
OBS

Depend on decision elements that will not always result in the same decision given the same problem inputs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)

Spanish

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