Spatially constrained timber harvest scheduling
- 1 June 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Forest Research
- Vol. 19 (6) , 715-724
- https://doi.org/10.1139/x89-111
Abstract
Multiple-use management forests of often requires imposition of spatial constraints on the selection of units for harvest. To satisfy such constraints, harvest units must be treated as integral units. A biased sampling search technique is used to find integer solutions to operationally sized problems. Solutions found for the sample problems are within 8% of the upper bound of the corresponding linear programming solution and less than 4% below the upper bound on the true optimum as defined by a confidence interval estimator.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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