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title: "Explicit Integration of Goals in Heuristic Algorithm Design"
authors:
  - "Jack Mostow"
  - "K. Voigt"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/222"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0222.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1987
pages: "1090-1095"
track: "Reasoning"
keywords:
---

# Explicit Integration of Goals in Heuristic Algorithm Design

Jack Mostow, K. Voigt

*Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1090-1095.

## Abstract

We describe a transformational derivation system that semi-automatically derives a simplified version of Mycin 's therapy selection algorithm. It uses general transformation rules to explicitly integrate the multiple, sometimes conflicting goals that govern the design of heuristic algorithms. The generality of its transformations . is demonstrated by using them to derive a variation based on formulating and integrating the same design goals differently.