Paper Info
Title
Modeling Pheromone Dispensers Using Genetic Programming
Abstract
Mating disruption is an agricultural technique that intends to substitute the use of insecticides for pest control. This technique consists of the diffusion of large amounts of sexual pheromone, so that the males are confused and mating is disrupted. Pheromones are released using devices called dispensers. The speed of release is, generally, a function of time and atmospheric conditions such as temperature and humidity. One of the objectives in the design of the dispensers is to minimise the effect of atmospheric conditions in the performance of the dispenser. With this objective, the Centro de Ecología Química Agrícola (CEQA) has designed an experimental dispenser that aims to compete with the dispensers already in the market. The hypothesis we want to validate (and which is based on experimental results) is that the performance of the CEQA dispenser is independent of the atmospheric conditions, as opposed to the most widely used commercial dispenser, Isomate CPlus. This was done using a genetic programming (GP) algorithm. GP evolved functions able to describe the performance of both dispensers and that support the initial hypothesis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-01129-0_73
EvoWorkshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
genetic programming,commercial dispenser,modeling pheromone,centro de ecolog,ceqa dispenser,agricultural technique,isomate cplus,initial hypothesis,atmospheric condition,experimental dispenser,pest control
Biochemical engineering,Simulation,Computer science,Pest control,Genetic programming,Codling moth,Pheromone,Sex pheromone,Symbolic regression,Mating disruption
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5484
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
4
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eva Alfaro-Cid1617.21
Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar2476.19
Pilar Moya320.74
Beatriu Femenia-Ferrer420.74
Ken Sharman59714.40
J. J. Merelo636333.51