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A heuristic method.
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The art of applying heuristic methods.
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A technique designed for solving a problem when classic methods are too slow or fail to find any exact solution.
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The study of heuristic methods and principles.
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Heuristic methods and approaches considered collectively.
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(by extension) Simple, efficient rules which people often use to form judgments and make decisions.
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(by extension) Experience-based methods used to reduce the need for calculations pertaining to equipment size, performance, or operating conditions.
Examples of heuristics in a Sentence
Real life problems tend to be tackled by applying suitable heuristics to simplify the problem.
Most of them seem to use heuristics or social norms.
You can work out much of these from judicious sniffing of traffic on the network; others you can deduce with some simple heuristics.
We provide a set of simple low-level heuristics which have been shown to be very successful in bin packing and knapsack problem.
My guess is that they will develop heuristics to work out which pages are junk.
Scientists can reduce the negative impact of the above heuristics by co-operating their respective self reflexive agents.
Of course, such simple heuristics are not without their risks.
There are various heuristics you can use to make an educated guess at the encoding in use.
Original, also preliminary, theoretical ideas or experimental studies and propositions of new heuristics when they support or point toward theoretically grounded principles.
An integrated user-centred design approach Taking the three usability heuristics identified, a new approach for product design was developed.
The talk presents a study of neighborhood search heuristics for fuzzy scheduling.
We formulate the interactive Markov chain with the same heuristics as the ABM of Hegselmann and Krause.
Such recommendations are typified by Nielsen's usability heuristics.
A tabu list of heuristics is also maintained which prevents certain heuristics from being chosen at certain times during the search.
Agent use simple decision heuristics, based on imperfect, local information.
By default, ilmid uses some heuristics to select a local IP address.
Some strategies for applying the metric heuristics to translation are provided.
We show that the choice function hyperheuristic makes an effective and realistic combination of the low-level heuristics at hand.
The red squares denote the mean heuristic for the final heuristics of this run Figure 2.