Looking Ahead with Anticipation and Hope

Looking ahead with anticipation and hope.

for 2003, it’s almost a requirement to reflect on the year gone by. By many accounts, 2002 will be known as the year of reports. The most influential report belongs to the Romanow Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada; the most pragmatic, the final report of the Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee; and the most flamboyant release, Senator Kirby’s Final Report of Federal Role in Heal...

Looking ahead.

Looking ahead.

Looking Ahead?

Human and nonhuman primates are not mentally constrained to the present. They can remember the past and—at least to an extent—anticipate the future. Anticipation of the future ranges from long-term prospection such as planning for retirement to more short-term future-oriented cognition such as planning a route through a maze. Here we tested a great ape species (chimpanzees), an Old World monkey...

Looking at Full Looking Ahead

Haralick and Elliott's full looking ahead algorithm [4] was presented in the same article as forward checking, but is not as commonly used. We give experimental results which indicate that on some types of constraint satisfaction problems, full looking ahead outperforms forward checking. We also present three new looking ahead algorithms, all variations on full looking ahead, which were designe...