27 Jan 2005
CS 3243 - Heuristics
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Properties of greedy best-first
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Complete?
No – can get stuck in loops,
e.g., Iasi
à
Neamt
à
Iasi
à
Neamt
à
…
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Time?
O(b
m
)
, but a good heuristic can give
dramatic improvement
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Space?
O(b
m
)
: keeps all nodes in memory
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Optimal?
No