5 CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS

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5CONSTRAINTSATISFACTIONPROBLEMSInwhich weseehowtreatingstatesasmore thanjustlittleblack boxesleadsto theinventionofa range ofpowerfulnew search methodsanda deeperunderstandingofproblemstructure and4 exploredtheideathatproblemscanbesolvedby searchinginaspaceofstates. Thesestatescanbeevaluatedbydomain-specif icheuristicsandtestedtoseewhetherthey ,however,eachstateis is representedbyanarbi-BLACKBOXtrarydatastr ucturethatcanbeaccessedonlybytheproblem- specificroutines thesuccessorfunction,heuristicfunction, , whosestatesandgoaltestconformtoa standard,structured,andverysimplereprese ntation( ).Searchal-REPRESENTATIONgorithmscanbede finedthattake advantageofthestructureofstatesandusegen eral-purposeratherthanproblem-specifiche uristicsto enablethesolutionoflargeproblems( ).

5.3). Perhaps most importantly, the standard representation of the goal test reveals the struc-ture of the problem itself (Section 5.4). This leads to methods for problem decomposition and to an understanding of the intimate connection between the structure of a problem and the difficulty of solving it. 5.1 CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS

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