AWA*-a window constrained anytime heuristic search algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Sandip Aine;P. P. Chakrabarti;Rajeev Kumar

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India;Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India;Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This work presents an iterative anytime heuristic search algorithm called Anytime Window A* (AWA*) where node expansion is localized within a sliding window comprising of levels of the search tree/graph. The search starts in depth-first mode and gradually proceeds towards A* by incrementing the window size. An analysis on a uniform tree model provides some very useful properties of this algorithm. A modification of AWA* is presented to guarantee bounded optimal solutions at each iteration. Experimental results on the 0/1 Knapsack problem and TSP demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed techniques over some existing anytime search methods.