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Subject: Re: simple node definitions question

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:11:38 09/13/04

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On September 13, 2004 at 10:59:43, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

>On September 13, 2004 at 10:13:27, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On September 13, 2004 at 00:46:30, Michael Henderson wrote:
>>
>>>Hello, can anybody confirm these definitions I have for nodes?  I think they are
>>>right but I like to make sure :)
>>>
>>>(depth = 2) //pre frontier node
>>>(depth = 1) //frontier node
>>>(depth = 0) //leaf node
>>>(depth < 0) //qsearch node
>>
>>
>>Most use:
>>
>>depth == 1 pre-frontier node
>>depth == 0 frontier node
>
>According to Heinz, frontier nodes have depth == 1.
>He calls depth == 0 nodes horizon nodes.

I've only seen the usage I gave.  I particularly don't like the term "horizon
node" as horizon is something you can't see beyond, yet clearly the q-search
probes past those...


>
>http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/dt/node22.html
>http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/dt/node25.html
>http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/dt/node28.html
>
>
>
>>leaf node is any node with _no_ successors searched.
>>depth <= 0 == qsearch



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