Questions tagged [state-space-search]

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What is the difference between search and planning?

I'm reading the book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig). However, I don't understand the difference between search and planning. I was more confused when I saw that some search problems can be determined…
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How DFS may expand the same state many times via different paths in an acyclic state space?

I am reading the book titled Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig (4th edition) and came across this sentence about depth-first search (page 79, line 12): For acyclic state spaces it may end up expanding the…
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How do I construct a state space that shows that Greedy Best First Search is not complete while A* is?

Construct a state space with appropriate heuristics and local costs. Show that Greedy Best First search is not complete for the state space. Also illustrate A* is complete and guarantees solution for the same state space. Here I can not come up…