UGA Forestry Continuing Education Course: Forest Planning Heuristics
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The Forest Planning Heuristics course will be held April 7, 2011 in Athens, GA. Who Should Attend? Forest planners, analysts, consultants, and other natural resource professionals who have an interest in understanding the usefulness and limitations of using heuristics for forest planning purposes.
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Apr 07, 2011 from 08:45 AM to 03:00 PM |
| Contact Name | Krista Merry |
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This course will provide natural resource management professionals with
introductory knowledge on five basic heuristic processes that have been
suggested for use in forest planning processes. The course will describe
the basic implementation of each when applied to typical harvest
scheduling problems that have an economic objective (e.g., maximization
of net present value) and may have wood flow or harvest timing and
placement (adjacency) constraints. While actual implementation of the
heuristic processes will require computer programming skills, this
course does not require participants to use a computer programming
language. The content of the course is built around graphical examples
(flow charts and others) that are meant to describe in general how each
process works. Advantages and disadvantages of each heuristic process
will be outlined, and enhancements to their basic implementation (to
derive higher quality plans) will be discussed. This leisurely course will cover the following:
1) An introduction and background on the use of heuristics in forest planning
2) An introduction to Monte Carlo simulation, simulated annealing, threshold accepting,
tabu search and genetic algorithms.
2) A discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each heuristic process.
Instructor: Dr. Pete Bettinger
Location: Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources; Room to be determined
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM (lunch included)
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM (lunch included)
Cost: $200
You can register online here.
Credit: 5.0 Category 1 SAF Continuing Education (CFE) Credits
You can register online here.
Credit: 5.0 Category 1 SAF Continuing Education (CFE) Credits
