Constraint Modeling for Forest Management

Multi-objective Finite-Domain Constraint-Based Forest Management

“…As previously stated the present work comes as a continuation of our participation in the BIOECOSYS project, as documented in [ 1], and of our current participation in the MODFIRE project. In that project we worked with a different structure for the Vale de Sousa Forest: the Paiva sub-region was divided into north and south and Penafiel included a cluster of several large MUs which made it a hard sub-region to solve.…”

“…This paper presents an extension to previous work [ 1] of the authors on single criteria Forest Management optimization by considering multiple-criteria. Forest Management remains an activity of prime ecological importance where the interests of multiple stakeholders can lead to complex combinatorial and optimization problems, more so when different measures of economic performance such as wood yield and cash flow have to be balanced with environmental impact measures such as soil loss and fire resistance.…”