
An Introduction
to
Creative Evolutionary Systems
introduction, how this is done by evolution. However, quite different approaches
to search have long been a mainstay of AI research. The most explored search
technique in AI is
heuristic search,
in which a solution (perhaps a design, perhaps
a schedule, and so forth) is constructed gradually, bit by bit, with heuristics
(rules of thumb) employed to decide how to choose each successive part. This is
the technique employed by advanced Web spiders, for example, which explore
the Web link by link in order to find useful new information on a particular
topic. ...