what the different of heuristic and meta-heuristic?

[Ozzy69]

Hi, i liked of know what the different of heuristic of meta-heuristic

[minomic]

Hi,
the meta-heuristic is 'at another level'... This means the following: an heuristic is something you use to evaluate a solution to a problem, while the meta-heuristic is an heuristic that you use to evaluate another heuristic. Then you can go up and use a meta-meta-heuristic, and so on.

As a rule of thumb, the word 'meta' usually introduces kind of a 'reflexive' behaviour.