An improved evolutionary algorithm for solving multi-objective crop planning models

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 191-199

  Sarker, Ruhul ^a   Ray, Tapabrata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Constrained problem; Crop planning; Evolutionary algorithm; Multi objective optimization

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINED METHOD; CONSTRAINED PROBLEM; CROP PLANNING; MULTI OBJECTIVE; MULTI OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION MODELS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM; NONLINEAR VERSIONS; NSGA-II; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; PLANNING MODELS; PLANNING PROBLEM;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; CROPS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; ALGORITHM; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 67650529054     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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