{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"On A* as a Special Case of Ordered Search","authors":[{"name":"Marcel Schoppers","slug":"marcel-schoppers","given":"Marcel","family":"Schoppers","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"The A• admissibility and o ptimality proo fs prese nt ed to dat e have been based on overly restrictiv e ass umpti ons abo ut the relationsh ip bet ween r ea l a nd estim ate d cos ts . This pa per shows that idealis m, acc uracy and se lectivity, properties hith e rto th o ught to be uniqu e to A • , a re in f act common to all ordered search es, and do not require th e eval u atio n fun ct ion I= g+ h traditionally assumed. Consequ ent ly , rnu ch of A• the ory ca n be greatly simplified.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/190","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0190.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/190.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/bibtex/190","volume":{"slug":"1983","title":"Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1983","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/","year":1983,"location":"Karlsruhe, West Germany","dates":"","editors":"Alan Bundy","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Planning and Search","track":"Planning and Search","number":190,"pages":{"first":783,"last":784},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}