Category:Heuristics

• Heuristic (engineering)

A

• Admissible heuristic
• Affect heuristic
• Anchoring effect
• Availability heuristic

B

• Baconian method

C

• Cognitive inertia
• Computational heuristic intelligence
• Consistent heuristic
• Constructive heuristic
• Contagion heuristic
• Content sniffing
• Cross-entropy method

D

• Debiasing
• Distributional–relational database
• Duck test

E

• Effort heuristic
• Eurisko
• Evaluation function
• Extremal optimization

F

• Familiarity heuristic
• Fast-and-frugal trees
• Fly algorithm
• Forensic science
• Frecency
• Fudge factor

G

• Gaze heuristic
• Graduated optimization
• Guided local search

H

• Heroic theory of invention and scientific development
• Heuristic
• Heuristic (psychology)
• Heuristic argument
• Heuristic-systematic model of information processing
• Hitchens's razor
• How to Solve It
• How to Solve it by Computer
• Hyper-heuristic

K

• Killer heuristic
• Knowledge inertia

L

• Lectio difficilior potior
• Littlewood's three principles of real analysis

M

• M-ratio
• Maximization (psychology)
• Meta-optimization
• Missing sock
• Money illusion
• Multiple discovery

N

• Neuroheuristics
• Nicolausian discounting
• Null-move heuristic

O

• Occam's razor

P

• Parallel tempering
• Peak–end rule
• Pollen calendar
• Principle of least astonishment
• Priority heuristic
• The purpose of a system is what it does

R

• Recognition heuristic
• Representativeness heuristic
• Reversal test
• Reverse logistics network modelling
• Rippling
• Rosy retrospection

S

• Satisficing
• Scientific consensus
• Scientific enterprise
• Similarity heuristic
• Simulation heuristic
• Smith's laws
• Social heuristics
• Sutton's law
• Symmetry in problem solving

T

• Take-the-best heuristic
• Talking past each other
• Teachable moment
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Trial and error

W

• Win–stay, lose–switch

Z

• Zero-sum thinking