Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Is there such a thing as approximate optimization?

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Steve Railsback wrote:
> How should I refer to a decision-making approach in which agents make 
> a rough-but-realistic approximation of the outcome of each decision 
> alternative and then select the alternative with the best approximated 
> outcome?
Minimax search? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon