TY - JOUR AU - Friedland, Peter PY - 2010/09/25 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The 2008 Classic Paper Award: Summary and Significance JF - AI Magazine JA - AIMag VL - 31 IS - 4 SE - Columns DO - 10.1609/aimag.v31i4.2309 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2309 SP - 109-110 AB - We at the NASA laboratory believed that our best work came when we simultaneously advanced AI theory and provided immediately usable solutions for current NASA problems. “Solving Large-Scale Constraint Satisfaction and Scheduling Problems Using a Heuristic Repair Method,” by Steve Minton, Mark Johnston, Andy Phillips, and Phil Laird clearly achieved both. It proved that local search and repair was applicable to a wide class of constraint satisfaction problems and clearly explicated the theory behind that proof. ER -