Search Terminology
- Problem Space: It is the environment in which the search takes place. (A set of states and set of operators to change those states)
- Problem Instance: It is Initial state + Goal state
- Problem Space Graph: It represents problem state. States are shown by nodes and operators are shown by edges.
- Depth of a problem: Length of a shortest path or shortest sequence of operators from Initial State to goal state.
- Space Complexity: The maximum number of nodes that are stored in memory.
- Time Complexity: The maximum number of nodes that are created.
- Admissibility: A property of an algorithm to always find an optimal solution.
- Branching Factor: The average number of child nodes in the problem space graph.
- Depth: Length of the shortest path from initial state to goal state.