heuristic rule


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Noun1.heuristic rule - a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem
formula, rule - (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials"
lateral thinking - a heuristic for solving problems; you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on
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A heuristic rule of thumb, educated guess, or trial-and-error result is a useful alternative data source for combat situations where experienced-based, after-action report information is often sufficient for immediate problem solving.
Since GlobalGA2 has one more heuristic rule, that is, Rule 3, than GlobalGA1 has, it is reasonable to assume that the improvement in performance of GlobalGA2 is mainly due to Rule 3.
It includes new malware detection mechanisms and other significant improvements to the scan engine including a large set of Phishing signatures, support for SURBLs (Spam URL Realtime Blocklists) and heuristic rule tests.
Incoming email is redirected to the service's fully redundant, multi-tenanted network and application architecture, which processes messages in real-time via both traditional spam filtering techniques and leading-edge approaches to message analysis including authenticity checks, message fingerprinting, heuristic rule sets, extensive URI databases, real-time message source analysis, and customizable whitelists and blacklists.
(15) For a heuristic rule to have an effect on equilibrium outcomes, irrational traders need not be completely weeded out of the economic system (through bankruptcy or reduction to a marginal role in determining equilibrium results).
We focus on two decisions: price and capacity, and two potential approaches for each decision: use a simple heuristic rule or optimize against the other choices.
Processor 2 is the first heuristic rule in the methodology.
The second heuristic rule states that if the optimal solutions to the problems whose last periods are in set R all have the same production quantities for the first j* periods, then it is very likely that those production quantities will be part of any optimal solution to a problem of length greater than n.