Using lookaheads with optimal best-first search

Roni Stern, Tamar Kulberis, Ariel Felner, Robert Holte

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Abstract

We present an algorithm that exploits the complimentary benefits of best-first search (BFS) and depth-first search (DFS) by performing limited DFS lookaheads from the frontier of BFS. We show that this continuum requires significantly less memory than BFS. In addition, a time speedup is also achieved when choosing the lookahead depth correctly. We demonstrate this idea for breadth-first search and for A*. Additionally, we show that when using inconsistent heuristics, Bidirectional Pathmax (BPMX), can be implemented very easily on top of the lookahead phase. Experimental results on several domains demonstrate the benefits of all our ideas.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAAAI-10 / IAAI-10 - Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 22nd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference
PublisherAI Access Foundation
Pages185-190
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781577354642
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2010
Event24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 22nd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, AAAI-10 / IAAI-10 - Atlanta, GA, United States
Duration: 11 Jul 201015 Jul 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Volume1

Conference

Conference24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 22nd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, AAAI-10 / IAAI-10
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta, GA
Period11/07/1015/07/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence

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