Title
Evolutionary optimization of wetlands design
Abstract
Wetlands are artificial ponds, designed to filter and purify running water through the contact with plant stems and roots. Wetland layouts are traditionally designed by experts through a laborious and time-consuming procedure: in principle, small patches of vegetation with purifying properties are tentatively placed, then the resulting water flow is verified by fluid dynamics simulators and when a satisfying outcome is reached, the wetland final layout is decided. This paper proposes to automate wetland design exploiting an evolutionary algorithm: a population of candidate solutions is cultivated by the evolutionary core, and their efficiency is evaluated using a state-of-the-art fluid-dynamics simulation framework. Experimental results show that the results obtained by the proposed approach are qualitatively comparable with those provided by experts, despite the complete absence of human intervention during the optimization process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2480362.2480400
SAC
Keywords
Field
DocType
evolutionary core,wetland final layout,candidate solution,complete absence,artificial pond,evolutionary optimization,resulting water flow,wetlands design,evolutionary algorithm,wetland layout,wetland design,evolutionary algorithms,optimization
Population,Mathematical optimization,Vegetation,Water flow,Evolutionary algorithm,Computer science,Wetland,Fluid dynamics
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.48
1
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Gaudesi1548.08
Andrea Marion211.16
Tommaso Musner310.82
Giovanni Squillero4992103.07
Alberto Tonda51199.86