An Apple Tree Branch Pruning Analysis

Effects of Pruning on the Apple Tree: from Tree Architecture to Modeling

Arboricultural practices such as pruning, artificial bending or fruit thinning are crucial interventions in orchard management and are used for controlling tree size, penetration of light into the canopy and the equilibrium between vegetative and reproductive growth. The aim of this project is to explore the possibility of integrating such practices in a model of apple tree development. To this...

Experiments with an innovative tree pruning algorithm

The pruning phase is one of the necessary steps in decision tree induction. Existing pruning algorithms tend to have some or all of the following difficulties: 1) lack of theoretical support; 2) high computational complexity; 3) dependence on validation; 4) complicated implementation. The 2-norm pruning algorithm proposed here addresses all of the above difficulties. This paper demonstrates the...

An Analysis of Forward Pruning

Several early game-playing computer programs used forward pruning (i.e., the practice of deliberately ignoring nodes that are believed unlikely to affect a game tree’s minimax value), but this technique did not seem to result in good decision-making. The poor performance of forward pruning presents a major puzzle for AI research on game playing, because some version of forward pruning seems to ...

Pruning by Isomorphism in Branch-and-Cut

Probability-Based Game Tree Pruning

In game-tree search, a point value is customarily used to measure position evaluation. If the uncertainty about the value is to be reflected in the evaluation, which is described with probabilistic distribution or probabilities, the search process must back up distributions from leaf nodes to the root. It is shown that even though the merit value of a node is described by probabilities, α-β bou...