Title
Intelligent Habitat Restoration Under Uncertainty.
Abstract
Conservation is an ethic of sustainable use of natural resources which focuses on the preservation of biodiversity, i.e., the degree of variation of life. Conservation planning seeks to reach this goal by means of deliberate actions, aimed at the protection (or restoration) of biodiversity features. In this paper we present an intelligent system to assist conservation managers in planning habitat restoration actions, with focus on the activities to be carried out in the islands of the Great Barrier Reef (QLD) and the Pilbara (WA) regions of Australia. In particular, we propose a constrained optimisation formulation of the habitat restoration planning (HRP) problem, capturing aspects such as population dynamics and uncertainty. We show that the HRP is NP-hard, and develop a constraint programming (CP) model and a large neighbourhood search (LNS) procedure to generate activity plans under budgeting constraints in a reasonable amount of time.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
THIRTIETH AAAI CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Biodiversity,Population,Mathematical optimization,Environmental resource management,Computer science,Conservation planning,Constraint programming,Natural resource,Neighbourhood (mathematics),Sustainability,Restoration ecology
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.43
References 
Authors
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tommaso Urli1798.66
Jana Brotánková210.77
Philip Kilby31179.89
Pascal Van Hentenryck44052425.66