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Re91: The PriorityQueue Class, Part A
(Best-First-Search Part 10, AIMA4e pp. 73-74)

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Trying to make PriorityQueue work by fiddling with evaluation functions.
Given the AIMA Python source code, we can now provide a test map with actions and locations (i.e. a state space), a test problem with initial state, goal state and state space, a test evaluation function to order our queue of nodes, and run best_first_search without throwing an error; the output, though, does not seem like a solution.

Air date: Thursday, 22nd Dec. 2022, 11:00 PM Eastern/US.

Getting best_first_search to run
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While the output does not seem like a solution node (which should contain more information than just the goal state), it's good that we can run BFS without error messages.
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Other sources to consult:
* Russell & Norvig (2020);
* Retraice (2022/12/14);
* Retraice (2022/12/15);
* Retraice (2022/12/16);
* Retraice (2022/12/17);
* Retraice (2022/12/18);
* Retraice (2022/12/19);
* Retraice (2022/12/20);
* Retraice (2022/12/21);
* Retraice (2022/12/22);
* http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/figures.pdf;
* https://github.com/aimacode/aima-python/blob/master/search4e.ipynb;
* https://github.com/retraice/ReAIMA4e/.

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References

Retraice (2022/12/14). Re82: What is a problem? (BEST-FIRST-SEARCH Part 1, AIMA4e pp. 73-74). retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re82Retrieved 15th Dec. 2022.

Retraice (2022/12/15). Re83: A Problem Instantiated (BEST-FIRST-SEARCH Part 2, AIMA4e pp. 73-74). retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re83Retrieved 16th Dec. 2022.

Retraice (2022/12/16). Re84: A Node Instantiated (BEST-FIRST-SEARCH Part 3, AIMA4e pp. 73-74). retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re84Retrieved 17th Dec. 2022.

Retraice (2022/12/17). Re85: The Details (BEST-FIRST-SEARCH Part 4, AIMA4e pp. 73-74). retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re85Retrieved 18th Dec. 2022.

Retraice (2022/12/18). Re86: Code Reading (BEST-FIRST-SEARCH Part 5, AIMA4e pp. 73-74). retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re86Retrieved 19th Dec. 2022.

Retraice (2022/12/19). Re87: The multimap Function, Part A (BEST-FIRST-SEARCH Part 6, AIMA4e pp. 73-74). retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re87Retrieved 20th Dec. 2022.

Retraice (2022/12/20). Re88: The multimap Function, Part B (BEST-FIRST-SEARCH Part 7, AIMA4e pp. 73-74). retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re88Retrieved 21th Dec. 2022.

Retraice (2022/12/21). Re89: The multimap Function, Part C (BEST-FIRST-SEARCH Part 8, AIMA4e pp. 73-74). retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re89Retrieved 22st Dec. 2022.

Retraice (2022/12/22). Re90: The Map Class (BEST-FIRST-SEARCH Part 9, AIMA4e pp. 73-74). retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re90Retrieved 23nd Dec. 2022.

Russell, S., & Norvig, P. (2020). Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Pearson, 4th ed. ISBN: 978-0134610993. Searches:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-0134610993
https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+978-0134610993
https://lccn.loc.gov/2019047498