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heuristics
  1. The study of heuristic methods and principles.
  2. Heuristic methods and approaches considered collectively.
  3. (psychology) Simple, efficient rules which people often use to form judgments and make decisions.
  4. (engineering, by extension) Experience-based methods used to reduce the need for calculations pertaining to equipment size, performance, or operating conditions.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Michie recalls Turing experimenting with heuristics that later became common in chess programming.”
      “While cognitive heuristics allow one to economize on search costs, they also lead to errors.”
      “In this paper, we experiment with three heuristics based on correlativity and efficiency.”
heuristic
  1. A heuristic method. [from 1860]
  2. The art of applying heuristic methods.
  3. (computing) A technique designed for solving a problem when classic methods are too slow or fail to find any exact solution.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Because of the scale of the problem, the authors produced a heuristic to decide the routing of trucks and the scheduling of drivers on the routes.”
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