Sokoban: Reversed Solving Bachelor Thesis
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This bachelor thesis describes a new method for attempting to solve Sokoban puzzles by means of an efficient algorithm, a task which has proven to be extremely difficult because of both the huge search tree depth and the large branching factor. We present a way of solving Sokoban puzzles that, using several heuristics, starts from the final state of a puzzle, and from there works its way back to the initial state. This method makes the time-consuming checking for a large portion of the undesired deadlocks unnecessary, giving some interesting results.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008