EXCALIBUR
Adaptive Constraint-Based Agents in Artificial Environments

[LOCAL]   [Global]   [Granularity]   [Control]   [Job-Shop]   [Minima]   [Extension]   [Conclusion]

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Susceptibility to Local Minima and Plateaus

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Unlike low-level CSP-based representations, global constraints enable the search to be conducted in a more informed way. A measure for this is the susceptibility to getting caught in local minima and on plateaus. This is investigated in the following subsections.

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Last update:
May 19, 2001 by Alexander Nareyek