Assignment Problem

Abstract

A heuristic search procedure that selects a node in its search tree for expansion such that the selected node has minimum value of the sum of the cost to reach the node plus a heuristic cost value for that node, where the heuristic cost underestimates the true minimum cost of completion. In stochastic or Monte Carlo simulation, a method for sampling from a given difficult target probability distribution by sampling from a distribution that is close to the target distribution and relatively easy to sample but possibly rejecting the generated output. Sometimes just called the rejection method.