Title
Efficiently approximating the Pareto frontier: Hydropower dam placement in the Amazon basin
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Wu X.
Gomes-Selman J.
Shi Q.
Xue Y.
Anderson E.
Sethi S.
Steinschneider S.
Flecker A.
Gomes C.
Cornell University
Publisher(s)
AAAI press
Abstract
Real-world problems are often not fully characterized by a single optimal solution, as they frequently involve multiple competing objectives; it is therefore important to identify the so-called Pareto frontier, which captures solution trade-offs. We propose a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme based on Dynamic Programming (DP) for computing a polynomially succinct curve that approximates the Pareto frontier to within an arbitrarily small > 0 on tree-structured networks. Given a set of objectives, our approximation scheme runs in time polynomial in the size of the instance and 1/. We also propose a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) scheme to approximate the Pareto frontier. The DP and MIP Pareto frontier approaches have complementary strengths and are surprisingly effective. We provide empirical results showing that our methods outperform other approaches in efficiency and accuracy. Our work is motivated by a problem in computational sustainability concerning the proliferation of hydropower dams throughout the Amazon basin. Our goal is to support decision-makers in evaluating impacted ecosystem services on the full scale of the Amazon basin. Our work is general and can be applied to approximate the Pareto frontier of a variety of multiobjective problems on tree-structured networks.
Start page
849
End page
858
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Oceanografía, Hidrología, Recursos hídricos
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85050494834
ISBN of the container
9781577358008
Conference
32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2018
Sponsor(s)
The authors thank the anonymous reviewers. This research was partially supported by Cornell University's David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) and by the National Science Foundation (CCF- 1522054 and CNS-1059284).
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