Using Abstraction to Create Heuristics

Where Do Heuristics Come From ?
(Using Abstraction to Speed Up Search)
Tutorial Given at AAAI 2005

Handout Slides (subset of the following slides in their May 2005 form )
Presentation Slides - Part 1 (last updated: July 22, 2005)
Presentation Slides - Part 2 (last updated: July 29, 2005)
Presentation Slides - Part 3 (last updated: July 29, 2005)
Bibliography (Bibtex entries for this bibliography have been submitted to bibserv.org).

Robert Holte's publications related to Abstraction and Search

If you are interested in Abstraction in Artificial Intelligence, there is a conference specifically devoted to the subject -- SARA, the Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation.
SARA'2005 home page -- it will be held near Edinburgh just before IJCAI.

Using Abstraction to Create Heuristics

Where Do Heuristics Come From ? (Using Abstraction to Speed Up Search) Tutorial Given at AAAI 2005

Where Do Heuristics Come From ?
(Using Abstraction to Speed Up Search)
Tutorial Given at AAAI 2005