Basic Requirements
An effective DEE implementation requires four pieces of information:
- A well-defined finite set of discrete independent variables
- A precomputed numerical value (considered the "energy") associated with each element in the set of variables (and possibly with their pairs, triples, etc.)
- A criterion or criteria for determining when an element is a "dead end", that is, when it cannot possibly be a member of the solution set
- An objective function (considered the "energy function") to be minimized
Note that the criteria can easily be reversed to identify the maximum of a given function as well.
Read more about this topic: Dead-end Elimination
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