Transcription of 5 CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS
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5 CONSTRAINTSATISFACTIONPROBLEMSI nwhich weseehowtreatingstatesasmore thanjustlittleblack boxesleadsto theinventionofa range ofpowerfulnew search methodsanda deeperunderstandingofproblemstructure and4 exploredtheideathatproblemscanbesolvedby searchinginaspaceofstates. Thesestatescanbeevaluatedbydomain-specif icheuristicsandtestedtoseewhetherthey ,however,eachstateis is representedbyanarbi-BLACKBOX trarydatastructurethatcanbeaccessedonlyb ytheproblem-specificroutines thesuccessorfunction,heuristicfunction, , whosestatesandgoaltestconformtoa standard,structured,andverysimplereprese ntation( ).Searchal-REPRESENTATION gorithmscanbedefinedthattake advantageofthestructureofstatesandusegen eral-purposeratherthanproblem-specifiche uristicsto enablethesolutionoflargeproblems( ).Perhapsmostimportantly, thestandardrepresentationofthegoaltestre vealsthestruc-tureoftheproblemitself( ).
SATISFACTION PROBLEMS In which we see how treating states as more than just little black boxes leads to the invention of a range of powerful new search methods and a deeper understanding of problem structure and complexity. Chapters 3 and 4 explored the idea that problems can be solved by searching in a space of states.
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