Application of genetic algorithms to problems where the fitness landscape changes dynamically is a challenging problem. Genetic algorithms for such environments must maintain a diverse population that can adapt to the changing landscape and locate better solutions dynamically. A niching genetic algorithm suitable for locating multiple solutions in a multimodal landscape is applied. The results ...

This paper addresses the long-standing problem of generating fractal mountains with rivers, and presents a partial solution that incorporates a squig-curve model of a river’s course into the midpoint-displacement model for mountains. The method is based on the observation that both models can be expressed by similar context-sensitive rewriting mechanisms. As a result, a mountain landscape with ...

Urbanization brings biophysical changes in the composition of the landscape. Such change has an impact on the thermal environment locally. The urban mosaic of land use and land cover is thus characteristically composed of local climate zones. The spatial variation in the land surface temperature across specific zone is studied for Bhopal city. The objective of the study was to understand how th...

Urbanization is developing unprecedentedly on a global scale. One of the chief repercussions of urbanization, caused by man-made alterations in land-use/land-cover (LULC), is the formation of urban heat islands. Albeit, differences among landscape structures and its accompanied effects on the environment are mostly neglected. Accordingly, the main objective of this study is to survey the variou...

Landscape can be explained both fro� positivistic and constructivistic positions. Confusion and contradictions around the landscape paradig� arise fro� different definitions (e.g. geoco�plex versus cultural landscape), the role of landscape boundaries and landscape classifications. �he deli�itation and classification of (natural) landscape units in Saxony (Ger�any), the concept of landscape fun...

linear green infrastructures along rivers and canals serve different functions: green corridors, or ecological network, maintain biological diversity, improve water quality, and provide areas for fauna and flora to grow and thrive. greenways connect people with landscape resources and serve as recreational areasthat are easy to use and accessible to the greatest number of potential human users....