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Home > Proceedings / Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 32

Scalable Relaxations of Sparse Packing Constraints: Optimal Biocontrol in Predator-Prey Networks

March 15, 2023

Authors

Johan Bjorck

Cornell University


Yiwei Bai

Shanghai Jiao Tong University


Xiaojian Wu

Cornell University


Yexiang Xue

Cornell University


Mark Whitmore

Cornell University


Carla Gomes

Cornell University


Published:

2018-02-08

Proceedings:

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 32

Volume

Issue:

Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2018

Track:

Computational Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence

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Abstract:

Cascades represent rapid changes in networks. A cascading phenomenon of ecological and economic impact is the spread of invasive species in geographic landscapes. The most promising management strategy is often biocontrol, which entails introducing a natural predator able to control the invading population, a setting that can be treated as two interacting cascades of predator and prey populations. We formulate and study a nonlinear problem of optimal biocontrol: optimally seeding the predator cascade over time to minimize the harmful prey population. Recurring budgets, which typically face conservation organizations, naturally leads to sparse constraints which make the problem amenable to approximation algorithms. Available methods based on continuous relaxations scale poorly, to remedy this we develop a novel and scalable randomized algorithm based on a width relaxation, applicable to a broad class of combinatorial optimization problems. We evaluate our contributions in the context of biocontrol for the insect pest Hemlock Wolly Adelgid (HWA) in eastern North America. Our algorithm outperforms competing methods in terms of scalability and solution quality and finds near-optimal strategies for the control of the HWA for fine-grained networks -- an important problem in computational sustainability.

DOI:

10.1609/aaai.v32i1.11340


AAAI

Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2018


ISSN 2374-3468 (Online) ISSN 2159-5399 (Print)


Published by AAAI Press, Palo Alto, California USA Copyright © 2018, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence All Rights Reserved.

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