MEASURING THE EFFICACY OF ADJACENCY CONSTRAINT STRUCTURE IN FOREST PLANNING-MODELS

This paper examines various structural representations of adjacency co nditions in forest planning problems. It will be shown that alternativ e representations can rival traditional approaches, which is counter t o much of the mathematical modeling and formulation literature. Analys is was conducted on a number of forest planning problems in order to d raw some general conclusions on adjacency constraint representations. This is the first time that these structures have been compared in a c omprehensive way. This paper provides insights into solution performan ce using different constraint structures and will help further the dev elopment of improved methodologies for analyzing environmental problem s that must incorporate increased spatial detail.