Some nice java applets for playing with and understanding Search and CSP concepts

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

There are a bunch of very nice interactive JAVA applets at

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/lci/CIspace/

that you can use to play with and understand the action of search 
algorithms and CSP algorithms (plus more).

The search applet allows you to create a graph in an interactive form 
(graphically), set edge costs, set heuristic costs and run various search 
algorithms interactively--you can step through the action of the algorithms 
and the specific arcs and nodes visited by teh search algorithm are shown, 
as is the final solution found.

The CSP applet allows you to create binary CSP problems in terms of the 
cosntraint graphs. You can set the domains of the variables and you can 
also set the constraints among variables. In setting the constraints you 
can either select from a set of pre-specified constraints (e.g. < , > , != 
etc) or specify your own constraints as legal value combinations for the 
two variables.

There are help menus as well as tutorials on the help menus

Check it out and let me know if you found them useful. the applets load 
quite fast.

Rao