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Newell and Simon [1961; 1972] invented means-ends analysis during their work on the General Problem Solver (GPs), back in the early days of artificial intelligence. Their technique combined goal-directed reasoning with forward chaining from the initial state. The authors of later systems [Fikes and Nilsson, 1971; Warren, 1974; Tate, 1977] gradually abandoned forward search and began to rely exclusively on backward chaining.
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Fink, E. (2002). Prodigy search. In: Changes of Problem Representation. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 110. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1774-4_2
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