The Journal of Heuristics provides a forum for advancing the state-of-the-art in the theory and practical application of techniques for solving problems approximately that cannot be solved exactly. It fosters the development, understanding, and practical use of heuristic solution techniques for solving business, engineering, and societal problems. It considers the importance of theoretical, empirical, and experimental work related to the development of heuristics.The journal presents practical applications, theoretical developments, decision analysis models that consider issues of rational decision making with limited information, artificial intelligence-based heuristics applied to a wide variety of problems, learning paradigms, and computational experimentation.

《啟發式學雜志》提供了一個促進理論和實際應用技術的最新進展的論壇，這些技術可以近似地解決無法精確解決的問題。它促進開發、理解和實際使用啟發式解決方案技術來解決業務、工程和社會問題。它考慮了與啟發式發展相關的理論、經驗和實驗工作的重要性。該雜志介紹了實際應用、理論發展、考慮有限信息的理性決策問題的決策分析模型、應用于各種問題的人工智能啟發式方法、學習范式和計算實驗。