Package edu.uky.ai.planning

Interface Heuristic<E>

Type Parameters:

E - the kind of object representing a partial solution

All Known Implementing Classes:

BackwardHeuristic, ForwardHeuristic

public interface Heuristic<E>

A heuristic is a function which estimates how much work remains to be done to convert a partial solution to a problem into a complete solution.

Author:

Stephen G. Ware

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
double	evaluate(E object)	Returns an estimate of how much work remains to be done to convert the partial solution into a complete solution.

Method Details

evaluate

double evaluate(E object)

Returns an estimate of how much work remains to be done to convert the partial solution into a complete solution.

Parameters:

object - the partial solution

Returns:

an estimate of remaining work