Three Design Principles
The Constrainedness Hypothesis
- Choose variables which are more constrained than other variables (e.g. pack suits before toothbrush for interview trip)
- Motivation: Most constrained first
- attack the most difficult part of the problem
- it should either fail or succeed and make the rest easy
The Satisfaction Hypothesis
- Try to choose variables which seem likely to come closest to satisfying the problem
- Motivation: we want to find a solution, so choose the variable which comes as close to that as possible