Incorporating spatio-temporal knowledge in an Intelligent Agent Model for natural resource management

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 123-133

  Bone, Christopher ^a   Dragićević, Suzana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest management; Intelligent agent; Reinforcement learning; Spatio temporal modeling

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LOCATION; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; PROFITABILITY; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

DECISION MAKING PROCESS; INTELLIGENT AGENT MODEL; NATURAL LANDSCAPES; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE EXTRACTION; SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELS; TIMING OF DECISIONS;

DECISION MAKING;

ALGORITHM; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; HARVESTING; HEURISTICS; NATURAL RESOURCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING PRACTICE; RESOURCE USE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; EXTRACTION TESTS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NATURAL RESOURCES; PROFITABILITY; RECOVERY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TIME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 77951254750     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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