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Publications

  • Tóth, S.F., McDill, M.E., George, S., Könnyű, N. A Strengthening Procedure for the Path Formulation of the Area-Based Adjacency Problem in Harvest Scheduling Models. Submitted to Mathematical and Computational Forestry and Natural Resource Science.  Dataset(s): Bear Town, Five Points, Kittaning4, PackForest, PhyllisLeeper

  • Tóth, S.F., McDill, M.E., George, S., Könnyű, N. Lazy Constraints in Area-Based Adjacency Formulations of Harvest Scheduling Models. Submitted to Forest Science. Dataset(s): Bear Town, Five Points, Kittaning4, PackForest, PhyllisLeeper

  • Könnyű, N., Tóth, S.F. Cutting Plane Method for Solving Harvest Scheduling Models with Maximum Clearcut Size Restrictions. Submitted to Operations Research.  Dataset(s): Bear Town, Five Points, Kittaning4, PackForest, PhyllisLeeper

  • Gunn, E.A., Richards, E.W. Optimizing stand level forest harvesting using a tradeoff objective function. Fried, Jeremy, Leefers, Larry, and Vasievich, J. M. Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources NC-GTR-208. 1997. North Central Research Station, St. Paul Mn.
    Dataset(s): Shulkell
  • Richards, E.W. A tabu search method for a tactical forest planning problem. 1-248. 1997. Technical University of Nova Scotia. 9-1-1997.
    Dataset(s): Shulkell
  • Richards, E.W., Gunn, E.A. A model and tabu search method to optimize stand harvest and road construction schedules. Forest Science 46[2], 188-203. 2000.
    Dataset(s): Shulkell
  • Richards, E.W., Gunn, E.A., 2003. Tabu search design for difficult forest management optimization problems.Can. J. For. Res. 33, 1126-1133.
    Dataset(s): Shulkell
  • Murray, A., Church, R. Heuristic Solution Approaches to Operational Forest Planning Problems. OR Spektrum 17, 193-203. 1995.
    Dataset(s): Bloedel
    Bettinger, P., D. Graetz, K. Boston, J. Sessions, and W. Chung. 2002. Eight heuristic planning techniques applied to three increasingly difficult wildlife planning problems. Silva Fennica. 36:561-584. WLC
  • Murray, A.T. and A. Weintraub. 2002. Scale and unit specification influences in harvest scheduling with maximum area restrictions. Forest Science, 48, 2002.
    Dataset(s): Buttercreek
  • Epstein, R., Goycoolea, M., Murray, A.T. and A. Weintraub. 2003. An adjacency-modeling problem based on constructing harvesting areas. In Systems Analysis in Forest Resources, edited by G.J. Arthaud and T.M. Barrett. 279-289 (Dordrecht: Kluwer Scientific). Dataset(s): Buttercreek, El Dorado
  • Murray, A.T., M. Goycoolea and A. Weintraub. 2004. Incorporating average and maximum area restrictions in harvest scheduling models. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 34. 456-464.
    Dataset(s): Buttercreek, El Dorado
  • A.T. Murray, D. M. Ryan, J.P. Vielma, and A. Weintraub."Improved Solution Techniques for Multi-Period Area-Based Forest Harvest Scheduling Problems". In "System analysis in forest resources: proceedings of the 2003 symposium." Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-656. M. Bevers, T.M. Barrett, tech. comps. 2005. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Portland, OR. Page 285.
    Dataset(s): El Dorado
  • Goycoolea M., Murray A., Barahona F., Epstein R., Weintraub A., 2005, Harvest scheduling subject to maximum area restrictions: exploring exact approaches. Operations Research 53, 490-500.
    Dataset(s): Buttercreek, El Dorado
  • A.T. Murray, D. M. Ryan, J.P. Vielma, and A. Weintraub. 2005. Improving Computational Capabilities for Addressing Volume Constraints in Forest Harvest Scheduling Problems Accepted in European Journal of Operational Research.
    Dataset(s): Buttercreek, El Dorado
  • Crowe, K., Nelson, J. 2005. An evaluation of the simulated annealing algorithm for solving the ARM against optimal benchmarks. Can. J. For. Res. 35:2500-2509.
    Datasets: Naka, Stafford, Hardwicke, Gavin, Kootenay1, Kootenay2, Kootenay3
  • Crowe, Kevin A.and Nelson, J.D. An evaluation of the simulated annealing algorithm for solving the area-restricted harvest scheduling model against optimal benchmarks Can. J. For. Res. Vol 35 Issue 10, p2500�2509 (2005).
    Datasets: Naka, Stafford, Hardwicke, Gavin, Kootenay1, Kootenay2, Kootenay3
  • Gunn E.A., Richards E.W. Solving the adjacency problem with stand-centred constraints, Can. J. For. Res. 35: 832�842 (2005).
 

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