Checking, Most Constrained Variable, Heuristic Repair, Local Search, K-
Exchange, Metaheuristics, Iterative Local Search, Tabu Search, Ant
Colony Optimization, Hill Climbing, Traveling Salesperson, Simulated
Annealing, Rules, Antecedents, Consequents, Rule-Based Systems,
Fact Base, Knowledge Base, Inference Engine, Forward and Backward
Chaining, Longest Matching Strategy, Meta Rules, Expert Systems, End
Users, Knowledge Engineers, Domain Experts, Explanation Systems,
Knowledge Base Editors, Shell, CLIPS, deftemplate, Ordered Facts,
retract, facts, modify, duplicate, Refraction: Techniques for Constraint
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A to H
Chess columns are organized from...
1 to 8
Chess rows are organized from...
Goal Node
Check every possible configuration until one is found that meets the constraints
One Queen
, Each row and each column must contain
Problem with Chronological Backtracking
Error may not be caused by the most recently placed queen
Forward Checking
Delete a set of impossible future choices
Most Constraint Variable
Start with this variable each stage which has the least possible valid choices
Heuristic Repair
Generate an intuitive initial state using a simple heuristic and then try to fix it
Local Search
Start from an initial configuration and make small changes until a state is reached which has no
better successor states
K-Exchange
A method where K variables are changed at each step