A cultural algorithm for spatial forest harvest scheduling

Wan Yu Liu*, Chun-Cheng Lin

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper proposes a cultural algorithm for the spatial forest harvest scheduling for maximizing the total harvested timber volume, under the constraints of minimum harvest age, minimum adjacency green-up age, and approximately even volume flow for each period of the schedule. In order to increase the solution-search ability, the cultural algorithm extracts problem-specific information during the evolutionary solution search to update the belief space of a generation, which has cultural influences and guidance on the next generation. The key design of our cultural algorithm is to propose the cultural and evolutionary operators specifically for the problem. Experimental analysis shows that our cultural algorithm performs better than the previous approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1273-1276
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781479914883
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Sep 2014
Event2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2014 - Beijing, China
Duration: 6 Jul 201411 Jul 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2014

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period6/07/1411/07/14

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