heuristics

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A set of heuristics is applied, which take into account things like how many pieces each player has in play, how mobile each player is (how many valid moves they have), how easily they can form a row of three pieces, and so on.

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  • They don't trust their expression to improvisation One of the really fruitful ways to bring the two cultures together is to see what kind of purchase the literary view of language can have in understanding the constitutive role that discourse plays in scientific theories, heuristics, and experiments. —  Omni: November 1993
  • To "see what kind of purchase the literary view of language can have in understanding the constitutive role that discourse plays in scientific theories, heuristics, and experiments," as Kate says (and as I now say differently, if verbatim). —  Omni: November 1993
  • Instead of using ad hoc heuristics, a recent study proposed characterizing interference in a WMN by measuring two-way interference, i.e., interference between each pair of communicating links. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We develop heuristics that allow OLSR to find the maximum bandwidth path, show through simulation that these heuristics do improve OLSR in the static network case, and finally, we prove that for our ad-hoc network model, two of the heuristics are indeed optimal (i.e., guarantee that the highest-bandwidth path between any two nodes is found). —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • More than 40 years later, fast and frugal heuristics -- proposed as models of human judgment -- were formalized, tested, and found to be surprisingly accurate, often more so than the actuarial models that Meehl advocated. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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