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HEURISTIC REASONING [3 records]

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Record 1 2012-01-04

English

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

... as a tutorial mechanism, [the computer-assisted instruction system] can form models of both the students’ states of knowledge and their reasoning strategy. These structural models are used both to identify fundamental misconceptions and to determine when and how to provide remediation, heuristic recommendations("hints"), or further instruction.

CONT

Without some reasoning about the student’s intentions and some appropriate remediation, effective teaching does not take place.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente
DEF

Activité aidant les élèves à s'améliorer à la suite d'une évaluation formative en fin d'apprentissage.

CONT

Quant aux messages d'aide, ils ont été libellés en français afin d'assurer une remédiation non équivoque.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics
  • Economic Conditions and Forecasting
DEF

Any device or procedure used to reduce problem-solving effort.

DEF

A systematic, experimental method of approaching unstructured, symbolic, or unmeasurable problems for which solutions are found by successive identification and evaluation of the progress made toward the final solution. Additional elements of heuristic reasoning include a tradition of independent investigation, heavy reliance on common sense, and the use of intuition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique
  • Prévisions et conjonctures économiques
DEF

Méthode de résolution de problèmes, non fondée sur un modèle formel et qui n'aboutit pas nécessairement à une solution.

CONT

Une heuristique est une méthode empirique : une procédure qui atteint un but donné dans une proportion acceptable de cas.

OBS

Aussi, discipline qui se propose de dégager et de formuler les règles de la découverte.

Spanish

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Record 3 1994-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

Reasoning where plausible inferences are derived from the application of heuristics rather than formal rules of inference. The semantics of heuristic reasoning is difficult to state formally, since such inferences are of the nature "x appears most similar to y. "

OBS

See "detective knowledge" and "factual knowledge".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

Si l'information disponible était toujours suffisante, le raisonnement investigatif du médecin pourrait s'effectuer de façon entièrement déductive ou catégorique.

Spanish

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