Title :
Heuristics, rules of thumb, and the 80/20 proposition
Author_Institution :
Div. of Appl. Sci., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
5/1/1994 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The author discusses perspectives in the quest for optimality in design. The author provides a perspective, indicates a new direction for optimization research, and supplies a rationale for the use of heuristics in decision making. The author submits that it pays to ask a softer question in a large category of complex problems. However, the author is not advocating a license to be sloppy and to stop the search for good heuristics. Indeed, the author´s intentions are to point out the possibility of quantifying heuristics
Keywords :
computational complexity; decision theory; optimisation; 80/20 proposition; complex problems; decision making; design; heuristics; optimality; optimization research; rules of thumb; softer question; Calculus; Concrete; Concurrent computing; Constraint optimization; Decision making; Optimization methods; Response surface methodology; Simulated annealing; Thumb; Uncertainty;
Journal_Title :
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
