A note on ‘A review of the status and use of validation procedures for heuristics used in forest planning'

Alan Murray

Abstract


This paper provides a discussion on validation procedures associated with heuristic solution approaches used in forest planning, initiated by Bettinger et al. (2008) (Bettinger, Sessions and Boston, 2008. A review of the status and use of validation procedures for heuristics used in forest planning. MCFNS 1(1): 26-37). Three issues are addressed. MCFNS-1:38-40.


Keywords


combinatorial optimization, extreme value theory, linear programming, mixed integer programming, operations research

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