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Applying genetic algorithms to multi-objective land use planning.

Matthews, Keith B.; Craw, Susan; Elder, Stewart; Sibbald, Alan R.; MacKenzie, Iain

Authors

Keith B. Matthews

Stewart Elder

Alan R. Sibbald

Iain MacKenzie



Contributors

L. Darrell Whitley
Editor

David E. Goldberg
Editor

Erick Cant�-Paz
Editor

Lee Spector
Editor

Ian C. Parmee
Editor

Hans-Georg Beyer
Editor

Abstract

This paper explores the application of multi-objective genetic algorithms (mGAs) to rural land-use planning, a spatial allocation problem. Two mGAs are proposed. Both share an underlying structure of: fitness assignment using Pareto-dominance ranking, niche induction and an individual replacement strategy. They are differentiated by their representations: a fixed-length genotype composed of genes that map directly to a land parcel's use, and a variable-length, order-dependent representation making allocations indirectly via a greedy algorithm. The latter representation requires additional breeding operators to be defined and post-processing of the genotype structure, to identify and remove duplicate genotypes. The two mGAs are compared on a real land-use planning problem, and the strengths and weaknesses of the underlying framework - and of each representation - are identified.

Citation

MATTHEWS, K.B., CRAW, S., ELDER, S., SIBBALD, A.R. and MACKENZIE, I. 2000. Applying genetic algorithms to multi-objective land use planning. In Whitley, L.D., Goldberg, D.E., Cantú-Paz, E., Spector, L., Parmee, I.C. and Beyer, H.-G. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2000 Genetic and evolutionary computation conference (GECCO 2000): joint meeting of the 9th International conference on genetic algorithms (ICGA-2000), and the 5th Annual genetic programming conference (GP-2000), 10-12 July 2000, Las Vegas, USA. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, pages 613-620.

Conference Name 2000 Genetic and evolutionary computation conference (GECCO 2000): joint meeting of the 9th International conference on genetic algorithms (ICGA-2000), and the 5th Annual genetic programming conference (GP-2000)
Conference Location Las Vegas, USA
Start Date Jul 10, 2000
End Date Jul 12, 2000
Acceptance Date Jul 31, 2000
Online Publication Date Jul 31, 2000
Publication Date Jul 31, 2000
Deposit Date May 14, 2007
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Publisher Morgan Kaufmann
Pages 613-620
ISBN 9781558607088
Keywords Multi objective genetic algorithms; Land use planning
Public URL http://hdl.handle.net/10059/65

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