Abstract
This chapter explains several multi-criteria decision analysis methods that can be used to systematise the evaluation of alternative forest plans. The discussed methods include SMART (the Simple Multi-Attribute Rating Technique), AHP (the Analytic Hierarchy Process), outranking methods, and voting methods. The second part of the chapter summarises various methods of heuristic search, which can be used to find good combinations of management alternatives for forest stands. The following heuristics area are explained: random ascent, Hero, simulated annealing, threshold accepting, great deluge, tabu search, and genetic algorithms.
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