Forest Planning Heuristics—Current Recommendations and Research Opportunities for s-Metaheuristics

Forest Planning Heuristics—Current Recommendations and Research Opportunities for s-Metaheuristics

Adaptive forest management requires planning and implementation of activities designed to maintain or improve forest conditions, and in support of these endeavors knowledge of silviculture, economics, operations research, and other allied fields are necessary. With regard to forest planning, traditional (exact) mathematical techniques along with heuristics have been demonstrated as useful in de...

Heuristics and metaheuristics in forward-chaining planning

Forward-chaining heuristic search is a well-established and popular paradigm for planning. It is, however, characterised by two key weaknesses. First, search is guided by a domain-independent heuristic which although applicable in a wide range of domains, can often give poor guidance. Second, the metaheuristics used to control forward-chaining planning are often weak, using simple local-search ...

Challenges and Barriers to Pregnant Women\'s Nutrition: Policy Recommendations

Robot Planning in the Real World: Research Challenges and Opportunities

Recent years have seen significant technical progress on robot planning, enabling robots to compute actions and motions to accomplish challenging tasks involving driving, flying, walking, or manipulating objects. However, robots that have been commercially deployed in the real world typically have no or minimal planning capability. These robots are often manually programmed, tele-operated, or p...

Leveraging epidemiology and clinical studies of cancer outcomes: recommendations and opportunities for translational research.

As the number of cancer survivors continues to grow, research investigating the factors that affect cancer outcomes, such as disease recurrence, risk of second malignant neoplasms, and the late effects of cancer treatments, becomes ever more important. Numerous epidemiologic studies have investigated factors that affect cancer risk, but far fewer have addressed the extent to which demographic, ...