depth first search

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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In depth first search of a search tree, one progresses by first looking as deeply as possibly down the left most branch at each node one encounters, and then each successive branch in order. This is one of the simplest search strategies alongside breadth first search.

Defined on page 63

Used on Chap. 4: pages 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 72, 74, 78, 80, 82; Chap. 18: pages 429, 430

Also known as depth first, depth first

Depth first search -- order of visiting nodes.