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S. Koenig and M. Likhachev. Adaptive A* [Short Paper]. In International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 1311-1312, 2005.

Abstract: Agents often have to perform repeated on-line searches as they gain additional knowledge about their environment. We describe an incremental version of A*, called Adaptive A*, that solves series of similar search problems faster than running A* repeatedly from scratch because it updates its heuristics between search episodes. It is simpler than other incremental versions of A* and thus likely easier to extend and adapt to new applications. Comment: Robert Holte has recently pointed out to us that his Hierarchical A* (R. Holte, T. Mkadmi, R. Zimmer, A. MacDonald. Speeding up Problem Solving by Abstraction: A Graph Oriented Approach. Artificial Intelligence, 85(1-2), although it is not an incremental heuristic search method, updates the heuristics in a way similar to Adaptive A*. You might want to check out his search method as well.

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