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Descriptor English: Heuristics
Descriptor Spanish: Heurística
Descriptor heurística
Scope note: Técnicas basadas en la experiencia para la resolución de problemas, el aprendizaje y el descubrimiento de que encuentren una solución que no se garantiza que sea óptima, pero suficiente para un determinado conjunto de objetivos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Heurística
Descriptor French: Heuristique
Entry term(s): Heuristic
Rule of Thumb
Tree number(s): F02.463.425.725.500
F02.463.785.810.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000066506
Scope note: Experience-based techniques for problem-solving, learning, and discovery that find a solution which is not guaranteed to be optimal, but sufficient for a given set of goals.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
DE drug effects
ES ethics
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Public MeSH Note: 2016
History Note: 2016
Related: Artificial Intelligence MeSH
Computer Heuristics MeSH
DeCS ID: 56086
Unique ID: D000066506
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Date Established: 2016/01/01
Date of Entry: 2015/07/06
Revision Date: 2015/06/15
Heuristics - Preferred
Concept UI M000595550
Scope note Experience-based techniques for problem-solving, learning, and discovery that find a solution which is not guaranteed to be optimal, but sufficient for a given set of goals.
Preferred term Heuristics
Entry term(s) Heuristic
Rule of Thumb



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