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Best-First Width Search in the IPC 2018 : Complete , Simulated , and Polynomial Variants

@inproceedings{Francs2018BestFirstWS,
  title={Best-First Width Search in the IPC 2018 : Complete , Simulated , and Polynomial Variants},
  author={Guillem Franc{\`e}s and Nir Lipovetzky},
  year={2018}
}
Width-based search algorithms have recently emerged as a simple yet effective approach to planning. Best-First Width Search (BFWS) is one of the most successful satisficing width-based algorithms, as it strikes a good balance between an effective exploration based on a measure of state novelty and the exploitation provided by traditional goal-directed heuristics. Several conceptually interesting BFWS variants have recently been shown to offer state-of-the-art performance, including a polynomial… 
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