Look-ahead

has two distinct aspects to its operation; feedforward and look-ahead planning." Kent suggests this has led to ".

One could make similar criticisms of another aspect of the adaptive "branch and bound" procedures found in most game playing and other heuristic programs that follow the "look-ahead" and "minimax" tradition.

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For information about the look-ahead feature of some audio compressors, see look-ahead.

Student approaches demonstrated a good deal of originality and insight and included: using very fast bit operators and low level code optimisation for speed, notions of safety, mobility, limited look-ahead, patternmatching, flood-fill, ...

to use the stored values faster and there is a generalization to keep the number of stored information down to a manageable level. Checkers-playing program, for example, uses this technique to learn the board positions it evaluates in its look-ahead ...

See also: Artificial intelligence, Knowledge, Pruning, Branch, Alpha