Rule-based agents for forecasting algal population dynamics in freshwater lakes discovered by hybrid evolutionary algorithms

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 46-54

  Welk, Amber ^a,b   Recknagel, Friedrich ^a,b   Cao, Hongqing ^a   Chan, Wai Sum ^a,b   Talib, Anita ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Department of Applied Chemistry   (Australia)

^c SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a; Forecasting; Generic rules; Hybrid evolutionary algorithm; k fold cross validation; Lake categories; Microcystis; Oscillatoria; Rule based agents

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CHLOROPHYLL A; CYANOBACTERIUM; FORECASTING METHOD; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME SERIES; WATER QUALITY;

ALGAE; MICROCYSTIS; OSCILLATORIA;

EID: 40949148197     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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