Preliminary study of the effectiveness of some heuristics used to generate solutions to ill-structured problems

Psychological Reports

Volumn 84, Issue 3 PART 1, 1999, Pages 817-827

  Butler, Darrell L ^a   Thomas, Kimberly M ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0040812716     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1999.84.3.817     Document Type: Article

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