foundations of computational agents
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The preceding algorithms can be improved by taking into account multiple paths to a node. We consider two pruning strategies. The simplest strategy is to prune cycles; if the goal is to find a least cost path, there is no use considering paths with cycles. The other strategy is only ever to consider one path to a node and to prune other paths to that node.