Author(s): Eloy, Eduardo ; Bushenkov, Vladimir ; Abreu, Salvador
Date: 2024
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/36097
Origin: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
Subject(s): Forest management; Constraint programming; Constraint modeling; Multi-criteria optimization; Pareto frontier
This paper describes an implementation of a Constraint Programming approach to the problem of multi-criteria forest management optimization. The goal is to decide when to harvest each forest unit while striving to optimize several criteria under spatial restrictions. With a large number of management units, the optimization problem becomes computationally intractable. We propose an approach for deriving a set of efficient solutions for the entire region. The proposed methodology was tested for Vale do Sousa region in the North of Portugal.
