A Survey of Heuristic Search Method of Multimodal Optimum Point

This is a survey of a theoretical and experimental study of a heuristic method of searching the globally optimum point of a multimodal, two-dimensional, nonlinear, and unknown criterion function by using the sighted, blindfolded, and blind subjects. First, the paper defines a heuristic search, establishes an experimental method for such a heuristic search, and develops a series of heuristic search experiments. Second, the paper shows some examples of the heuristic search behavior. Five kinds of the heuristic search model are extracted through five kinds of data processing based on a mode analysis. Some extracted models are proven to be appropriate and average. Third, the process of the heuristic search is studied from a viewpoint of concept formation by using a new idea of concept matrix.