Exploring the Geographic Consequences of Public Policies Using Evolutionary Algorithms.

The writers present a technique based on an evolutionary algorithm (EA) that generates a large number of optimal and near-optimal solutions to a broad range of land management problems. As a context to their new technique, they explore the effect of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Conservation...

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Publicado en:Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol. 94; no. 4; pp. 827 - 848
Autores principales: Bennett, David A., Xiao, Ningchuan, Armstrong, Marc P.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd December 2004
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