OPTIMAL FIRE MANAGEMENT FOR MAINTAINING COMMUNITY DIVERSITY

The Optimal Diversity Management Problem

In some industries, a certain part can be needed in a very large number of different configurations. This is the case, e.g., for the electrical wirings in European car factories. A given configuration can be replaced by a more complete, therefore more expensive, one. The diversity management problem consists of choosing an optimal set of some given number k of configurations that will be produc...

Optimal Forest Management with Stochastic Prices & Endogenous Fire Risk

* Corresponding author. Abstract – Earth observations are one way to reduce the risk to standing forests from damages caused by wild fires, since they enable early warning systems, preventive actions and faster extinguishing of fires, before they spread out. Another channel through which fire hazard can be reduced is the thinning of the forest, so the risk of a fire occurring becomes partially ...

Maintaining Diversity in Genetic Search

Genetic adaptive algorithms provide an efficient way to search large function spaces, and are increasingly being used in learning systems. One problem plaguing genetic learning algorithms is premature convergence, or convergence of the pool of active structures to a suboptimal point in the space being searched. An improvement to the standard genetic adaptive algorithm is presented which guarant...

Title : Optimal fire histories for biodiversity conservation

Remote sensing information for fire management and fire effects assessment

[1] Over the past decade, much research has been carried out on the utilization of advanced geospatial technologies (remote sensing and geographic information systems) in the fire science and fire management disciplines. Recent advances in these technologies were the focus of a workshop sponsored by the EARSEL special interest group (SIG) on forest fires (FF-SIG) and the Global Observation of F...