Алгоритм поиска — procedure for finding information, states или solutions within a data structure or problem space. В ИИ (AI) search algorithms используются для tasks, таких как planning, pathfinding, optimization и retrieval over discrete or continuous spaces.
Any algorithm which solves the search problem, namely, to retrieve information stored within some data structure, or calculated in the search space of a problem domain, either with discrete or continuous values.