Exploring the geographic consequences of public policies using evolutionary algorithms

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 827-847

  Bennett, David A ^a   Xiao, Ningchuan ^b,c   Armstrong, Marc P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c 316 Jessup Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural policy; Decision support; Multiobjective optimization; Spatial evolutionary algorithms

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; ALGORITHM; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 27644549219     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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