A Short Bibliography on Search and Constraint-Satisfaction -------------------------------- Path: yunexus!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!purdue!decwrl! + ucbvax!ADS.COM!rshu%meridian From: rshu%meridian@ADS.COM (Richard Shu) Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: Search bibliography Message-ID: <8804140029.AA19540@ads.com> Date: 14 Apr 88 00:18:22 GMT Lines: 281 BACHANT, J. AND McDERMOTT, J. R1 revisited: four years in the trenches. AI Magazine 5#3 (1984). BANNERJI, R.B. A comarison of three problem solving methods. Proc 5th IJCAI (1977), 442ff. BANNERJI, R.B. AND ERNST, C.W. A theory for the complete mechanization of a GPS-type problem solver. Proc 5th IJCAI (1977), 450ff. BARNETT, J.A. How much is control knowledge worth? a primitive example. Artif Intel 22 (1984), 77-89. BARTON, G.E. A multiple-context equality-based reasoning system. AI Lab TR-715, MIT (1983). BENOIT, J.W. A use of ATMS in hierarchical planning. 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